Definition of "television"

television

/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural televisions
1. (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
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.
3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
4. (uncountable, dated) Vision at a distance.
  Quotations
  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 a vivid picture of the manager himself.
  1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue
  […] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country
  1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165
verb
third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned
1. (neologism, informal) To watch television.

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