ORTHICON
orthicon, image orthicon
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
orthicon (plural orthicons)
TV camera tube. (Abbreviation of orthoconoscope.)
Source: Wiktionary
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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