television, TV, CCTV

CCTV of Texas prisoners breaking out to save guard

10 July 2016 Last updated at 11:18 BST

Banked on a wall beside the keys are CCTV screens displaying 32 different corners of the college and below that are ledgers cataloguing health-threatening mishaps, actual and potential. There's a lot of potential for accidents in this three-acre warren of slippery cobbles, curling staircases and medieval cellars where over 500 sometimes inebriated people study in term-time.

TV 

Pronunciation: /tiːˈviː/ 

ABBREVIATION

1Television (the system or a set):anything good on TV tonight?

Synonyms

2Transvestite.

television

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Pronunciation: /ˈtɛlɪvɪʒ(ə)n/ 

 /tɛlɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ 

NOUN

1[MASS NOUN] A system for converting visual images (with sound) into electrical signals, transmitting them by radio or other means, and displaying them electronically on a screen:the days before television[AS MODIFIER]: a television camera

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1.1The activity, profession, or medium of broadcasting on television:she has a job in television[AS MODIFIER]: television news

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1.2Television programmes:Dan was sitting on the settee watching televisionNorman was on television yesterday

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2(also television set)A device with a screen for receiving television signals:a colour televisionshe turned the television up

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Origin

Early 20th century: from tele- 'at a distance' + vision.

CCTV 

Pronunciation: /ˌsiːsiːtiːˈviː/ 

ABBREVIATION

Closed-circuit television.