iconoscope
noun
iconoscope is a noun meaning “an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-C-O-N-O-S-C-O-P-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of iconoscope is iconoscopes.
What does iconoscope mean?
noun
- 1
an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of iconoscope
- iconoscopes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is iconoscope?
Iconoscope appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).