picture tube
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The cathode ray tube which produced moving images on the screen of a television set, prior to the development of LEDs.
Example Sentences
- "The conventional TV picture tube, whose monstrous bubble of vacuum is responsible for most of the bulk of the TV cabinet, may be on its way out. Electronics men have long dreamed of shrinking the tube to a flat plate not much bigger than the picture."
- "The bulky, squarish, heavy picture tube, the standard television technology for more than 60 years, is heading for the dustbin of history much faster than anyone expected."