television
An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Verb 1 meaning
To watch television.
Etymology
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vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.
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TELEVISION at a glance
TELEVISION has 10 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + L 1 + E 1 + V 4 + I 1 + S 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,659 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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