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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A film of a transmitted television program.
  • transitive verb To make a film of (a transmitted television program).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as kinetoscope, 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun an early television receiver tube
  • noun a recording of a television broadcast made by filming the screen of a monitor; a telerecording

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Originally a trademark.]

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