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Definition of Image 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Image Orthicon
Literary usage of Image 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 ..."