Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun picture_tube

1 sense of picture tube

Sense 1
kinescope, picture tube, television tube -- (a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen)
       => cathode-ray tube, CRT -- (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)