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picture tube

noun

Definition of picture tube

: a cathode-ray tube on which the picture appears in a television

Examples of picture tube in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 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, "Retail Stores Made Elmira, N.Y., an Unlikely Success—Now They’re Gone," 27 Sep. 2017

First Known Use of picture tube

1937, in the meaning defined above

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