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(Electronics) a television camera tube in which 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

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image 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

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television pickup tube, television-camera tube - a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals

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