ORTHICON Definition & Meaning

orthicon

[ awr-thi-kon ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Television.

a camera tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, in which a beam of low-velocity electrons scans a photoemissive mosaic.

orthicon

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noun

a television camera tube in which an optical image produces a corresponding electrical charge pattern on a mosaic surface that is scanned from behind by an electron beam. The resulting discharge of the mosaic provides the output signal current See also image orthicon

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Origin of orthicon¹

First recorded in 1935–40; orth- + icon(oscope)

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Origin of orthicon¹

C20: from ortho- + icon ( oscope )

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The name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube - or the Immy.

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The name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube, nicknamed the Immy.

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The image orthicon tube revolutionized what it was possible to show on TV.

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“Immy,” a term for the image orthicon camera, was chosen instead and then changed to “Emmy” because it seemed better for a statue of a woman holding an atom.

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"Immy," a term for the image orthicon camera, was chosen instead and then changed to "Emmy" because it seemed better for a statue of a woman holding an atom.

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