television tube

noun

1. a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures Sometimes shortened totube Also calledpicture tube

Example Sentences

In some places, these appear like the fluttering horizontal lines produced by an old television tube, as if we are getting a distorted picture beamed over fickle airwaves.

From Washington Post

If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.

From Literature

There was a picture of one cowboy killing another one pasted to the television tube.

From Literature

Instead, because of a bizarre 50-year-old convention, they measure the 1950s television tube that those rectangular sensor chips could fit inside of.

From New York Times

Electrons are a useful model that explains observations like tracks in a cloud chamber and the spots of light on a television tube.

From Time