Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - television

~ n 1 also television set formal a thing shaped like a box with a screen, on which you can watch programmes; TV  (a 16 inch colour television) 2 a way of broadcasting pictures and sounds in the form of programmes that people can watch  (Who invented television? | television and radio journalism) 3 the programmes broadcast in this way; TV  (watch television)  (In the evenings I like to relax and watch television. | television programme/show/commercial etc)  (the television news) 4 on (the) television broadcast or being broadcast on television  (What's on television tonight?) 5 the business of making and broadcasting programmes on television  (Jean works in television. | television producer/reporter/newsreader etc)  (a television film-crew)