Videotronics

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The branch of electronics concerned with the circuits and components that make video equipment work
2. Electronic engineering applied to the recording, processing and display of video signals
3. The electronic systems and devices that handle picture and video signal production in equipment

Etymology: "Videotronics" blends two parts. The first, "video", comes from the Latin verb "videre", "to see", whose first-person form "video" ("I see") became the English word for moving pictures and their technology. The second, "-tronics", is a clipped form of "electronics", and "electron" was itself built from the Greek "ēlektron", "amber", the substance in which static electricity was first observed. Together the parts describe electronic video. The "-tronics" ending is a familiar modern pattern: it attaches to a noun to name a field of electronic devices or techniques. So the word reads as the study or industry of electronic picture-making, rather than as a description of any single machine.