telvsn

Noun

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

1. (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
   • She watched television for over five hours last night.
2. (countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
   • I have an old television in the study.

   Synonyms:

   television set, TV set, idiot box

3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
   • fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
4. (dated, uncountable) Vision at a distance.
   • Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television...1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue

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