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tv has definitions from the fields of electronics,telecommunications,television
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[ noun ] (telecommunications,television) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects

Synonyms

television video telecasting

Examples

"she is a star of screen and video" "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

One of the roughest was the TV quiz shows , which gave him inferiority_complexes .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

At_least this seemed to be the working hypothesis for `` Chicago and All That Jazz '' , presented on NBC - TV Nov. 26 .

About that same time John_Crosby 's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing_space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do .

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

Sipping their coffee , discussing the weather , the day 's shopping , Fritzie 's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ) , they avoided the radio , the morning TV news_show , even the front page of the Santa_Luisa_Register , resting on the kitchen bar .

Related terms

broadcasting hdtv cable_television audio video televize television frequency_band closed-captioned replay colorcast couch_potato televize

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[ noun ] (electronics,telecommunications,television) a receiver that displays television images

Synonyms

television_set television goggle_box idiot_box tv_set telly boob_tube television_receiver

Examples

"the British call a tv set a telly"

Used in print

(Richard S. Prather, "The Bawdy Beautiful," Cavalier...)

I guided her to the divan , turned_off the TV , faced her .

Related terms

receiver television kinescope

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Rhymes with

provision television vision collision division aversion envision supervision revision peavey peavy indecision decision rescission subdivision circumcision peloponnesian polynesian levy lesion allusion occasion derision precision parisian version malaysian collusion incision excision evasion conversion subversion diversion reversion profusion occlusion contusion submersion abrasion aspersion diversion artesian immersion illusion erosion cohesion delusion caucasian disillusion evasion conclusion confusion asian inversion invasion indonesian persian rhodesian tunisian perversion fusion corrosion preclusion rediffusion seclusion diffusion equation suasion preclusion inclusion exclusion infusion incursion transfusion dispersion implosion persuasion explosion excursion extrusion intrusion

Phonetic and Homophones

T IY1 V IY1
T EH2 L AH0 V IH1 ZH AH0 N

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