televisor

[ tel-uh-vahy-zer ]

noun

1. an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.

Word History and Origins

Origin of televisor¹

First recorded in 1925–30; televise + -or ²

Example Sentences

He lifted the televisor set from the streets, brought it back across the desert and mountains into the laboratory.

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The televisor dived through the dome, sped through the city, straight for a penthouse apartment.

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We'll need more televisor machines, more teleport machines, some for use on Mars and Venus, others for the Jovian moons.

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Absent-mindedly he knocked out his pipe and pocketed it, swung around to the manual of the televisor.

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The station lights went dark; its televisor connection with the palace was soon broken.

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