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Orthicon

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Noun

1. image orthicon, orthicon

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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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Orthicon

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noun
a television camera tube, an improved form of the iconoscope, in which the charges on a photosensitive plate are scanned by a low-velocity electron beam which is reflected and which delivers the signal current to an output electrode
: also ˌorthiˈconoˌscope (ˈɔrθɪˌkɑnəˌskoʊp ; ôrˈt hikänˌəskōpˌ)

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Orthicon

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n.
An electron tube used in early video cameras to capture images by scanning a photoactive mosaic inside the camera with a low-velocity electron beam. Unlike the earlier iconoscope, it could capture images in low light. Also called image orthicon.

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