: a cathode-ray tube on which the picture appears in a television
Examples of picture tube in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebOne of the bright new features of Snapdragon Stadium will be state-of-the-art video boards — a pair of them — which for fans will be like going from a TV with a picture tube to a flat screen with HD.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022 The secret of this miniature affair is a new-type picture tube, only one inch in diameter and six inches long.—Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021 Factory workers here made typewriters for Remington Rand, television picture tubes for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Sikorsky helicopters for the U.S. military.—Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
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