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ICONOSCOPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("iconoscope" is a kind of...):
television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)
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