television Definition

1. An electronic system that is used to convert moving images and sound into electrical signals, which are then transmitted by radio waves or by cable to a distant receiver that converts the signals back to images and sound.
2. A device with a picture tube and loudspeakers that is used to receive picture and sound signals transmitted in this way.

Thesaurus: TV, receiver, TV set, boob tube (US slang), small screen (slang), idiot box (slang), telly(slang).
Form: television set (also)
3. Television broadcasting in general. Also as adj.

Example: television programmes