vidicon: Meaning and Definition of

vid•i•con

Pronunciation: (vid'i-kon"), [key]
— n. Television.
  1. a camera tube in which a charge-density pattern is formed on a photoconductive surface scanned by a beam of low-velocity electrons for transmission as signals. Cf.
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