magic eye



magic eye

A cathode-ray tube found on some radios (particularly in the mid-20th century) that displayed a visual cue to aid the tuning of the radio. Back in my day, we needed to use a magic eye to tune our radios!
See also: eye, magic

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Cansu-Turkish
Manassehmə-NAS-ə (English)Biblical
Ganesh-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali, Nepali
JÉRÔMezhe-ROMFrench
BilboBIL-bo (English)Literature
Modest-Russian (Archaic)