单词 | camera tube |
释义 | > as lemmascamera tube camera tube n. (a) Photography (in a camera or scientific instrument) a tube along which light is directed from a lens or source into a device holding the film or plate (now chiefly historical); (b) Television any of various types of cathode ray tube used in television cameras to convert an optical image into a corresponding electrical signal; also called pick-up tube; cf. iconoscope n. 2, orthicon n., vidicon n. ΚΠ 1855 U.S. Patent 13,093 1/1 My invention..enables the camera-box to be adjusted..for taking stereoscopic pictures... It gives by its arranging the lenses of the camera-tube exactly the same distance each time. 1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. (1893) xv. 332 Nos. 1 to 12, Plate V., show a camera tube, box, and tripod, the materials of which cost less than a dollar. 1931 Science 2 Oct. (Advt. section) 8a The light enters by the slit, is reflected along the camera tube by a right-angled prism of quartz, [etc.]. 1937 Bismark (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 9 Jan. 2/3 Turning to the modern art, we find the heart of the television camera is this special camera tube. 1953 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. I. iv. 79 A monoscope is a camera tube containing a target on which a pattern or photograph is printed and which..generates a picture signal corresponding to the printed image. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 17 June 63/1 It would be a challenge to find a TV executive who knows that the Emmys take their name from an early orthicon camera tube. < as lemmas |
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