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| Brightness | The color attribute that determines how dark or light a color appears on the monochrome television screen or how much light the color reflects. |
| Camera chain | The television camera and associated electronic equipment including the camera control unit, sync generator, and power supply |
| Chrominance channel | The color channels within the color camera. |
| Contrast ratio | The difference between the brightest and darkest spots in the picture. |
| Gain | Electronic amplification of the video signal. |
| Hue | One of the three basic color attributes. Refers to the color itself. Red green blue etc… |
| Moire’ effect | Color vibrations that occur when narrow , contrasting stripes of a design interfere with the scanning lines of the television picture. |
| Pixel | A single imaging element (like the single dot in a newspaper picture) that can be identified by a computer. |
| Resolution | The characteristic of a camera that determines the sharpness of the picture received. |
| Saturation | The color attribute that describes a color’s richness or strength. |
| Signal-to-noise ratio | The relation of the strength of the desired signal to the accompanying electronic interference. |
| Sync Pulses | Electronic pulses that synchronize the scanning in the various video origination sources and various recording, processing and reproduction sources. |
