Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An early form of television-camera tube, equipped for rapid scanning of an information-storing, photoactive mosaic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A device attached to a camera, which shows in reduced scale an image of an object to be photographed; a finder. It permits a choice of point of view and arrangement.
Wiktionary
- n. an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells
WordNet 3.0
- n. the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Etymologies
- Originally a trademark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘iconoscope’.
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
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