ORTHICON


Meaning of ORTHICON in English

/awr"thi kon'/ , n. Television.

a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.

Also, orthiconoscope /awr'thi kon"euh skohp'/ .

[ 1935-40; ORTH- + ICON(OSCOPE) ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .