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(ôr'thĭ-kŏn') 
n.
A television camera pickup tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, that uses a low-velocity electron beam to scan a photoactive mosaic. Also called image orthicon.
n.
A television camera pickup tube, more sensitive than the iconoscope, that uses a low-velocity electron beam to scan a photoactive mosaic. Also called image orthicon.
[ORTH(O)- + ICON(OSCOPE).]
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intensifier image orthicon
(electronics)
image isocon
(electronics)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
(American inventor)
Year 1946
(in Science & Technology)
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