亚洲网紅露点

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orthicon

[ awr-thi-kon ]

noun

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


orthicon

/ 藞蓴藧胃瑟藢办蓲苍 /

noun

  1. a television camera tube in which an optical image produces a corresponding electrical charge pattern on a mosaic surface that is scanned from behind by an electron beam. The resulting discharge of the mosaic provides the output signal current See also image orthicon
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of orthicon1

First recorded in 1935鈥40; orth- + icon(oscope)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of orthicon1

C20: from ortho- + icon ( oscope )
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The name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube - or the Immy.

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The name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube, nicknamed the Immy.

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The image orthicon tube revolutionized what it was possible to show on TV.

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鈥淚mmy,鈥 a term for the image orthicon camera, was chosen instead and then changed to 鈥淓mmy鈥 because it seemed better for a statue of a woman holding an atom.

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"Immy," a term for the image orthicon camera, was chosen instead and then changed to "Emmy" because it seemed better for a statue of a woman holding an atom.

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