Associations to the word «Orthicon»

Wiktionary

ORTHICON, noun. TV camera tube. (Abbreviation of orthoconoscope.

Dictionary definition

ORTHICON, noun. 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.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King