field-sequential color television system
- noun
- Archaic
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sistema de televisión a color secuencial de campo
- The field-sequential color television system used a rapid sequence of primary colors to create the illusion of full color on screen.
Examples
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The field-sequential color television system was eventually replaced by more practical technologies for broadcasting color TV.
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John has a vintage set that uses a field-sequential color television system from the early 1950s.
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Researchers studied the limitations of the field-sequential color television system when evaluating early color broadcast standards.
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The field-sequential color television system was revolutionary in its time.
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Many early adopters praised the field-sequential color television system for its vivid colors.
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In the 1960s, the field-sequential color television system introduced vibrant color displays that captivated audiences.
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Television manufacturers experimented with the field-sequential color television system to enhance the viewing experience.
Synonyms
An early color television that shows pictures by quickly changing red, green, and blue images
An early television that shows red, green and blue in a quick order to make color images
A TV method that sends each picture in red, then green, then blue
Surface Forms
Morphology
field-sequential + color + television + system
The noun phrase is compositionally built (a color-television system that uses a field-sequential method), so much of the meaning follows from combining 'color', 'television' and 'system' with the modifier 'field-sequential'. However, 'field-sequential' is a technical modifier whose sense depends on domain-specific meanings of 'field' (video field) and 'sequential', so the exact display method is not fully predictable to a typical B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
Field-sequential color television system comes from how the picture was made: the set showed separate color fields (red, green and blue) one after another very quickly. Your eye joined these quick fields into 'full color', so the name describes a system that makes color by showing fields in sequence.
