TV

See also tv, and .tv

Translingual

Wikipedia

Symbol

TV

1. (metrology) Symbol for the teravolt, an SI unit of electromotive force equal to 10¹² volts.
2. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Tuvalu.

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tē'vē', IPA: /ˈtiːˈviː/, X-SAMPA: /%ti:"vi:/

Noun

TV (plural TVs)

1. television
2. transvestite

Translations

abbreviation for television

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電視 (cmn), 电视 (cmn) (diànshì)

• Danish: tv (da) n
• Dutch: tv (nl) f, teevee (nl) f
• Finnish: TV (fi)
• French: télé (fr) f
• German: TV (de) n
• Hebrew: טלוויזיה (he) (televizia) f
• Ido: TV (io)
• Interlingua: TV
• Italian: TV (it) f, tivù (it) f
• Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi), テレビジョン (ja) (terebijon)
• Korean: 텔레비 (ko) (tellebi), 티비 (ko) (tibi), 텔레비전 (ko) (tellebijeon)
• Latvian: TV (lv)

• Mandarin: TV (cmn)
• Norwegian: TV (no), teve (no)
• Portuguese: TV f, tevê f
• Russian: ТВ (ru) (tɛvɛ́) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ТВ (sh)

  Roman: TV (sh)

• Spanish: tele (es), tv (es) f
• Swedish: tv (sv), teve (sv)
• Tagalog: TV (tl)
• Telugu: టీ.వీ. (te) (Tee.vee.)
• Turkish: TV (tr)
• Vietnamese: truyền hình (vi) (傳形 (vi)), TV (vi)
• Yup'ik: tiiviiq

abbreviation for transvestite

• Dutch: travo m
• Finnish: transu (fi)

• German: Transe (de) f
• Swedish: T (sv)

Derived terms

• made-for-TV
• TV dinner
• TV evangelism
• TV evangelist
• TV land

See also

• telly
• tranny

Anagrams

• vt, VT, Vt.

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Finnish

Etymology

televisio (“television”)

Abbreviation

TV

1. TV (abbreviation for television)

Declension

Declension of TV (type filee) singular plural nominative TV TV:t genitive TV:n TV:iden TV:itten partitive TV:tä TV:itä accusative TV TV:n TV:t inessive TV:ssä TV:issä elative TV:stä TV:istä illative TV:hen TV:seen TV:ihin TV:isiin adessive TV:llä TV:illä ablative TV:ltä TV:iltä allative TV:lle TV:ille essive TV:nä TV:inä translative TV:ksi TV:iksi instructive – TV:in abessive TV:ttä TV:ittä comitative – TV:ineen

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French

Noun

TV f (invariable)

1. (Canada and Belgium, informal) television

Synonyms

• télé

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Mandarin

Romanization

1. television

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Portuguese

Noun

TV f

1. Initialism of televisão; TV

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

TV m (Cyrillic spelling ТВ)

1. TV

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtiːˈviː/, X-SAMPA: /"ti:"vi:/
• Homophone: Ti-Vi

Etymology

From English "TV," initialism for "television."

Abbreviation

TV

1. Abbreviation for television

Synonyms

• vô tuyến truyền hình [無線傳形]
• truyền hình (VN)
• Ti-Vi