°An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
            
            
              "It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell."
            
          
            
              °A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
            
            
              "I have an old television in the study."
            
        
          synonyms:
          boob tube, cultural barbiturate, electronic babysitter, glass teat
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          , goggle box, idiot box, plebvision, shit box, telly, tube, tv