television pickup tube

Noun television pickup tube has 1 sense

• television pickup tube(n = noun.artifact) television-camera tube - a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals;
has particulars: iconoscope, image orthicon, orthicon
is a part of camera, television camera, tv camera
is a kind of electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, tube, vacuum tube