television

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[edit] Etymology

From tele- (at a distance) + vision.

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Singular
television

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural televisions

television (countable and uncountable; plural televisions)

  1. (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
    It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
  2. (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
    I have an old television in the study.
  3. (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
    ... fifty-seven channels and nothing on [television].

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television

  1. Genitive singular form of televisio.