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televisor|ˈtɛlɪvaɪzə(r)|
Also Televisor.
[f. as televise v.: see -or.]
1. An apparatus for transmitting or receiving television pictures; orig. the name of that designed and patented by John Logie Baird (1888–1946). Now only Hist.
1926Glasgow Herald 11 Jan. 7 The Televisor. Ibid. 8 Oct. 9/1 The scene in front of the transmitting televisor is turned into electrical impulses. 1927Ibid. 2 Feb. 9 The cost of televisor equipment for practical use. 1930Moseley & Chapple Television viii. 95 The audience can see on the screen of their ‘televisors’, and hear the person who is broadcasting from the studio. 1935H. G. Wells Things to Come xii. 98 There is a large televisor disk and telephone and other apparatus on the desk before Cabal. Ibid. xiii. 119 A man stands up and switches on a televisor and everybody listens. 1946Astounding Science Fiction July 61/2 The televisor muttered at his elbow and he reached out to flip the toggle. 1984Financial Times 13 June 17/6 A rare John Logie Baird televisor of around 1930 sold for {pstlg}1,760.
2. A television broadcaster. rare.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §618/3 Televisor, the television transmitting apparatus; also a television artist or technician. 1966New Statesman 30 Sept. 497/4 (Advt.), Heather Jenner, televisor, broadcaster and writer. |