ICONOSCOPE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("iconoscope" is a kind of...):

television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)

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