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Examples of picture tube in a Sentence
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One of the bright new features of Snapdragon Stadium will be state-of-the-art video boards — a pair of them — which for fans will be like going from a TV with a picture tube to a flat screen with HD.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
The secret of this miniature affair is a new-type picture tube, only one inch in diameter and six inches long.
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Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
Factory workers here made typewriters for Remington Rand, television picture tubes for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Sikorsky helicopters for the U.S. military.
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Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
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Word History
First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined above
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“Picture tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picture%20tube. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
picture tube
noun
: a cathode-ray tube on which the picture in a television set appears
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