colour television tube
Noun: A colour television tube is a cathode-ray tube (CRT) designed for a television set that produces a full-color moving image. It is the internal component of a traditional color television that creates the picture by firing electron beams at a phosphor-coated screen.
The term is used to specify the primary display component in an analog color television set. It is a technical term, most common in descriptions of television technology, manufacturing, and repair.
Examples: * The technician replaced the faulty colour television tube to restore the picture. * Early models of colour television tubes were larger and heavier than modern flat-screen displays. * The invention of the shadow mask was a key development for the colour television tube.
- The term is often shortened informally to "color tube" or "picture tube" in contexts where color is implied.
- It is frequently contrasted with a black-and-white television tube or with modern display technologies like LCD or plasma screens.
- Color tube (noun): A common abbreviated form.
- Picture tube (noun): A more general term that can refer to both monochrome and color television tubes.
- Trinitron (noun): A proprietary type of color television tube developed by Sony.
- Cathode-ray tube (CRT) (noun): The broader category of display technology to which the color television tube belongs.
- Color CRT
- Color picture tube
- Shadow mask: A metal plate inside a color television tube with tiny holes that help align the electron beams to create the correct colors.
- Phosphor: The material on the inside of the screen that glows red, green, or blue when struck by electrons.
- Electron gun: The component that produces the beams of electrons inside the tube.
- a television tube that displays images in full color