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def a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera
def 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
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Hypernym television-camera tube, television pickup tube
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Hyponym television-camera tube, television pickup tube

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