image orthicon


nounTelevision.
  1. a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.

Origin of image orthicon

1
First recorded in 1940–45

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British Dictionary definitions for image orthicon

image orthicon

noun
  1. a television camera tube in which electrons, emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light, are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons

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