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set-top box

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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noun

Meaning 1

A device that connects some source of signal to a television set, often decrypting a digitally encrypted signal from a communications satellite or cable network.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: прие́мник (priémnik) — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • Bulgarian: декодер (dekoder) — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • Finnish: digiboksi — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • German: Set-Top-Box — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • Italian: decoder — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • Italian: decodificatore — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • Polish: dekoder — device that connects some source of signal to a television set
  • Turkish: set üstü kutusu — device that connects some source of signal to a television set