Synonyms for television

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tel-uh-vizh-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛl əˌvɪʒ ən

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Définition of television

Origin : 1907, "the action of seeing by means of Hertzian waves or otherwise, what is existing or happening at a place concealed or distant from the observer's eyes" [OED]; in theoretical discussions about sending images by radio transmission, formed in English or borrowed from French télévision, from tele- + vision. Other proposals for the name of this then-hypothetical technology were telephote (1880) and televista (1904). The technology was developed in the 1920s and '30s. Nativized in German as Fernsehen.
Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. [Clive Barnes, "New York Times," Dec. 30, 1969]
Meaning "a television set" is from 1955. Shortened form TV is from 1948.

noun visual and audio entertainment transmitted via radio waves

Example sentences :

And I read the finder scales of the television instrument to him.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various

Well have to keep out the press and television men, anyway, because of your health.
Extract from : « Martians Never Die » by Lucius Daniel

For television was long since an accomplished, everyday fact.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various

Together, and silently, Kincaide and I bent over the television disk.
Extract from : « Vampires of Space » by Sewell Peaslee Wright

A television set had somehow been turned on by the crash that bulged the back wall.
Extract from : « Morale » by Murray Leinster

It was like the television thrillers, after all, Parr reflected.
Extract from : « The Devil's Asteroid » by Manly Wade Wellman

With a grunt, I flipped my cigarette at the television lens.
Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith

Look at what television and such have done in our own civilization.
Extract from : « Anything You Can Do ... » by Gordon Randall Garrett

Just like a television play in installments, Brandon thought.
Extract from : « The Quantum Jump » by Robert Wicks

So does television, omnipresent and, at times, seemingly omnipotent.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

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