Tricolour Tube (Noun)
Meaning
A color television tube in which three primary colors are combined to give the full range of colors.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The old TV used a tricolour tube that provided good color quality for its time.
- Modern color TVs no longer use tricolour tubes, instead they have moved on to more advanced display technologies.
- In the 1960s, tricolour tubes revolutionized the way people watched television by bringing color into their homes.
- The process of combining red, green and blue phosphors in a tricolour tube to produce the full range of colors was an engineering marvel.
- Inside the picture tube of many early color TVs, there was a tricolour tube made up of three separate layers of phosphors.