Associations to the word «Orthicon»
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Wiktionary
ORTHICON, noun. TV camera tube. (Abbreviation of orthoconoscope.
Dictionary definition
ORTHICON, noun. A now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; 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.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.