television
An early television (2)
Meanings
Noun
- An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
- A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
- Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- Vision at a distance.
Verb
- To watch television.
Related
Similar words
- boob tube
- the box
- cultural barbiturate
- electric tit
- electronic babysitter
- glass teat
- goggle box
- idiot box
- idiot's lantern
- magic box
- plebvision
- the shit box
- television set
- telly
- the tube
- TV
Origin
- tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably a "simultaneous" translation or calque of French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
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