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/'ɔrθə,kɑn/

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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
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television-camera tube television pickup tube

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