CCTV

English

Noun

CCTV (countable and uncountable, plural CCTVs)

1. Initialism of closed-circuit television; video surveillance.
   • 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 165:

     Two months later Devon walked into Khandi’s Gem Express and Jewellery on the high road, with a kid from south Kilburn, Curtis Ainger, and a gun. Smile, you’re on CCTV. Nineteen when he went in. Twenty-three, this summer.

   • 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 52:

     There is CCTV in the coach, so anyone planning to pilfer a flapjack may well be seen!

Derived terms

• CCTV camera

Translations

closed circuit television

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閉路電視 / 闭路电视 (zh) (bìlù diànshì)

• Danish: tv-overvågning c, videoovervågning (da) c, overvågningskamera (da) n
• Finnish: kameravalvonta
• French: vidéosurveillance (fr) f
• German: (mechanism) Videoüberwachung (de) f, (camera) Überwachungskamera (de) f
• Hindi: बंद परिपथ दूरदर्शन m (band paripath dūrdarśan)
• Hungarian: kamerás megfigyelőrendszer, térfigyelő kamera
• Polish: telewizja przemysłowa f, telewizja obserwacyjna f
• Russian: видеонаблюде́ние (ru) n (videonabljudénije)
• Turkish: kapalı devre televizyon, MOBESE (tr)

Proper noun

CCTV

1. (broadcasting, China) Initialism of China Central Television.

Translations

China Central Television

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中國中央電視臺 / 中国中央电视台 (Zhōngguó Zhōngyāng Diànshìtái), 央視 / 央视 (zh) (Yāngshì)

• Finnish: CCTV (fi)
• French: CCTV (fr) f

See also

• CGTN
• CNTV