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Definition of Orthicon
1. 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.
Definition of Orthicon
1. Noun. TV camera tube. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orthicon
1. a type of television camera tube [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthicon
Literary usage of Orthicon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The conventional television image orthicon tube depends first upon conversion of
the x-ray image to a visual image, which in turn is converted by the target ..."
2. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force and the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"RAND's Feed Back study envisioned using an imaging orthicon television system.
RAND engineers estimated that the satellite could provide 30 million pictures ..."
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