A system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens; the device used to receive such transmissions.
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Greek/Latin hybrid1900well-attested
A modern compound of Greek 'tēle-' (τηλε-, far, distant, at a distance) and Latin 'vīsiō' (sight, the act of seeing), from 'vidēre' (to see), from PIE *weyd- (to see, to know). The Greek element 'tēle-' derives from 'tēle' (far off), itself from PIE *kʷel- (far). The wordwascoined in French as 'télévision' by Constantin Perskyi in a paper presented at the 1900 International World's Fair in Paris, a decade before a working