televiewer

plural televiewers

1. rareA person who watches television.

   Consequently, the televiewer sees with her own eyes what is seen by another eye.

   2001, Hent de Vries, Samuel Weber, Religion and Media, →ISBN, page 226

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   This article deals with the comparative psychology of the cinegoer and the televiewer.

   1991, Jacques Kermabon, Kumar Shahani, Cinema And Televisions, →ISBN, page 87

2. An acoustic scanner that generates images of a borehole wall by transmitting ultrasound pulses from a rotating sensor and recording the amplitude and travel time of the signals.

   In order to determine the orientation of permeable joint zones, the evaluation of the borehole televiewer data allows a precise measurement of the planar discontinuities at the borehole wall.

   1992, J. C. Bresee, Geothermal Energy in Europe: The Soultz Hot Dry Rock Project, →ISBN

3. literatureA device for viewing things remotely, along the lines of a television.