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Definition: HDTV

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.[Wordnet].

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Date "HDTV" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1984. (references)

Specialty Definition: HDTV

Domain Definition
Computing HDTV High Definition Television Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Business Abbreviation for high-definition television. (references)
Oceanography High-Definition Television System. (references)
Technology 1: High Definition Television. (references)
  2: High-Definition TV in digitized formats that will eventually replace present analog formats in 16:9 wide-screen TV. The Japanese version of HDTV is not truly the fully-digitized version broadcast system intended for the United States by the end of the year 2000. See also Intercast, IDTV, Wide-screen TV, Video, and Videodisc-digital. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Common Expressions: HDTV

Expressions Definition
WRAL HDTV Mast The WRAL HDTV Mast is a 1,199 foot (609.5 m) high guy-wired radio mast for TV and FM-broadcasting near Auburn, North Carolina, USA at 35°40'35.1"N and 78°32'07.2"W. The WRAL HDTV mast weighs 723 tons. Therefore, the guys weigh 258 tons. The WRAL HDTV mast has three platforms for aerials of directive radio and it is used by 3 TV and 2 FM-broadcasting companies. It was built in 1989 as replacement for two masts of the same height, which collapsed during a blizzard. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HDTV

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
HDTV English High definition television Post & Telecom
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Topics by Level of Interest: HDTV

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
HDTV blur 27     D6 HDTV VTR 23
D6 HDTV VTR 23     HDTV blur 27
High Fidelity HDTV 7     High Fidelity HDTV 7

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonym: HDTV
Position Synonym (sorted by strength)

Expression

high density television.
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Computed Synonyms: HDTV

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 Intensity 

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 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   6.0177   HDTV     high definition television     high-definition television, command and data acquisition, command and data acquisition station   
 2   1.0073   HDTV     command and data acquisition     command and data acquisition station, high definition television   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HDTV

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Brazilian Portuguese TVAD (HDTV, high definition television). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 高清电视 (HDTV, high definition TV), 高清晰度电视 (hdtv, high definition television), 高清 (HDTV, high-definition television), 高清晰度电视调谐设备 (hdtv tuner), 最好的hdtv (best hdtv). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 高清電視 (HDTV, high definition TV), 高清晰度電視 (hdtv), 高清 (HDTV, high-definition television), 高解析電視 (HDTV), 高解晰度電視機 (HDTV), 高密電視 (HDTV, high density television), 高清晰度電視調諧設備 (hdtv tuner), 最好的hdtv (best hdtv). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish teräväpiirtotelevisio (HDTV, high-definition television). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ハイビジョン (HDTV, Hi-Vision, HDTV Hi-Vision), 高精細度テレビ (HDTV, high definition television), 高品位テレビ (high-definition television, HDTV, high definition television). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese TVAD (HDTV, high definition television). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi högupplösningsteve (HDTV, high-definition television). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish TVAD (HDTV, high definition television, high-definition television), TAD (command and data acquisition, command and data acquisition station, HDTV, high definition television). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea teräväpiirtotelevisio (HDTV, high-definition television). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi teräväpiirtotelevisio (HDTV, high-definition television). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska högupplösningsteve (HDTV, high-definition television). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish högupplösningsteve (HDTV, high-definition television). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, HDTV. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: HDTV

Language Translations for “HDTV” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin HDTVAY (HDTV). Additional references: Pig Latin, HDTV. (volunteer)
Terran B Tvadvapos (HDTV). Additional references: Terran B, HDTV. (volunteer)
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