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Definition of "orthicon" [orthicon]

  • A television camera pickup tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, that uses a low-velocity electron beam to scan a photoactive mosaic. Also called image orthicon. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "orthicon" in a sentence
  • "Essentially, the orthicon was a pickup tube that used a low-velocity electron beam to scan a photoactive mosaic."
  • "Corporations also use other things to similar purposes, one famous example being the duel between Philo Farnsworth, the actual inventor of television more precisely, the orthicon tube, and David Sarnoff and RCA."
  • "Principally, weight and electrical power were the factors that required the much smaller black-and-white-image orthicon TV camera."