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CCTV
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English
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Noun
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en Q242256 en closed-circuit television ; video surveillance.
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.
en 2019-10-23 Pip Dunn The next king of Scotland Rail 52 There is CCTV in the coach, so anyone planning to pilfer a flapjack may well be seen!
en Jessie Yeung Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/05/asia/hong-kong-police-cameras-facial-recognition-intl-hnk-dst/index.html 2024-10-05 “I think it’s fair to anticipate that the use of CCTV and facial recognition technology in Hong Kong will begin to look a lot like those in mainland China over time,” she said. https://web.archive.org/web/20260302003709/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/05/asia/hong-kong-police-cameras-facial-recognition-intl-hnk-dst/index.html 2 March 2026
Derived terms
en CCTV camera
Translations
closed circuit television
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 閉路電視 bìlù diànshì
Danish: da tv-overvågning c, da videoovervågning c, da overvågningskamera n
Finnish: fi kameravalvonta
French: fr vidéosurveillance f
German: mechanism de Videoüberwachung f, camera de Überwachungskamera f
Hindi: hi बंद परिपथ दूरदर्शन m
Hungarian: hu kamerás megfigyelőrendszer, hu térfigyelő kamera
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb kameraovervåkning m, nb kameraovervåking m
Polish: pl telewizja przemysłowa f, pl telewizja obserwacyjna f, pl monitoring m, pl wideonadzór m
Russian: ru видеонаблюде́ние n
Spanish: es circuito cerrado de televisión
Turkish: tr kapalı devre televizyon, tr MOBESE
Welsh: cy TCC m
Proper noun
en Q207936 en broadcasting China en China Central Television.
Translations
China Central Television
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 中國中央電視臺 Zhōngguó Zhōngyāng Diànshìtái, cmn 央視 Yāngshì
Finnish: fi CCTV
French: fr CCTV f
Japanese: ja 中国中央電視台 ちゅうごくちゅうおうでんしだい, Chūgoku Chūō Denshidai, ja 中国中央テレビジョン ちゅうごくちゅうおうテレビジョン, Chūgoku Chūō Terebijon
Polish: pl CCTV n
See also
en CGTN
en CNTV