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TELEVISION CAMERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
Synonyms:
camera; television camera; tv camera
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("television camera" is a kind of...):
television equipment; video equipment (electronic equipment that broadcasts or receives electromagnetic waves representing images and sound)
Meronyms (parts of "television camera"):
camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)
hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)
mosaic (transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube)
television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "television camera"):
camcorder (a portable television camera and videocassette recorder)
