Picture Tube (Noun)
Meaning
A cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The old television set still used a picture tube to display the images on the screen.
- A picture tube was the heart of the television set, converting electrical signals into visible images.
- The repairman carefully removed the picture tube from the television set to replace it with a new one.
- The picture tube in the television set had burned out, causing the screen to go dark.
- In the early days of television, the picture tube was prone to overheating and burning out.