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

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway