Толковый словарь английского языка - television

noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: French télévision, from télétele+ vision vision Date: 1907 an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound, a ~ receiving set, 3. the ~ broadcasting industry, ~ as a medium of communication