Television vs Telecomputer - What's the difference?
television | telecomputer |
(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
(dated) A proposed device combining the functions of computer and television.
* 1980 , Texas Monthly (volume 8, number 1, January 1980, page 64)
* 1990 , George F. Gilder, Life after television
* 1999 , Melville Campbell Branch, The planning imperative and human behavior
As nouns the difference between television and telecomputer
is that television is television while telecomputer is (dated) a proposed device combining the functions of computer and television.television
English
(wikipedia television)Noun
- It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
- I have an old television in the study.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television
Derived terms
(television) * cable television * on television * televangelism * televangelist * television channel * television network * television station * TVSynonyms
(television) * boob tube * cultural barbiturate * electronic babysitter * glass teat * goggle box * idiot box * plebvision * the shit box * television set * telly * the tube * TVAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----telecomputer
English
Noun
(en noun)- If Adler has his way, the telecomputer will become an inescapable part of the life of every American. He envisions political campaigns waged with his machines
- the new technology of the telecomputer is unlikely to have an impact for a decade or two.
- Great talent is available to conceive and design self-education telecomputer programs: expert programmers, technicians, movie and television directors