television

It's a good thing that television doesn't transmit smell.

(uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

I have an old television in the study.

(countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.

fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

Half an hour with the manager of Faith Brothers had had the effect of studding the sergeant's habitual simplicity of words and phrases with amazing jewels of technicality. He talked gladly of "lines" and "repeats" and similar profundities, so that Grant had, through his bulk, in a queer television a vivid picture of the manager himself.

1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue:

[…] the magic mirror […] which furnished him television of his family and country

1943, Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, Essays on the Greek Romances, Longmans, Green and Co., page 165:

(uncountable, dated) Vision at a distance.

en-noun

television (countable and uncountable, plural televisions)

→ Japanese: テレビジョン (terebijon), → Japanese: テレビ (terebi)

→ Korean: 텔레비전 (tellebijeon)

→ Malay: televisyen

→ Maltese: televixin

desctree

→ Sanskrit: दूरदर्शन (dūradarśana) (semantic loan)
→ Thai: โทรทัศน์ (too-rá-tát)
→ Lao: ໂທລະທັດ (thō la that)
→ Khmer: ទូរទស្សន៍ (tuurĕəʼtŭəh)

→ Swahili: televisheni

→ Yoruba: tẹlifíṣọ̀n

/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

/ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/

From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.


television

(neologism, informal) To watch television.

en-verb

television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)

televisions (present singular third-person)
televisioning (participle present)
televisioned (participle past)
televisioned (past)

/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

/ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/


television

television (indefinite nominative uncountable)
televisionen (definite nominative uncountable)
televisions (genitive indefinite uncountable)
televisionens (definite genitive uncountable)

From English television, from tele- + vision.