Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electron tube used in the earliest video cameras to capture images by scanning a photoactive mosaic with an electron beam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device attached to a camera, which shows in reduced scale an image of an object to be photographed; a finder. It permits a choice of point of view and arrangement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an early
television camera having amosaic ofphotoactive cells
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From a 1969 Playboy interview: MCLUHAN: Kennedy was the first TV President because he was the first prominent American politician to ever understand the dynamics and lines of force of the television iconoscope.
Thermostat Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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From a 1969 Playboy interview: MCLUHAN: Kennedy was the first TV President because he was the first prominent American politician to ever understand the dynamics and lines of force of the television iconoscope.
Archive 2008-08-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The basic makeup was green toned with purple lipstick for optimal image transmission by RCA's iconoscope pick up cameras.
A MAN MADE FOR THESE PRIME TIMES Toby O'B 2005
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A little light danced to my heart beat, a wiggly line on an iconoscope display showed my blood pressure's rise and fall, another like it moved with my breathing, and there were several others that I did not understand.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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This intense radiation would fog the picture on the iconoscope face and literally blind the robot.
Tom Swift Jr And His Giant Robot Sklar, Richard 1954
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Rational Review 2009
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