television.
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Meaning & usage
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
She watched television for over five hours last night.
An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
I have an old television in the study.
Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
Vision at a distance.
Where this word comes from
From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
To watch television.
Where this word comes from
From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
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