The Collaborative International Dictionary
Console \Con"sole\, n. [F.]
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(Arch.)
A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
Any small bracket; also, a console table.
(Computers) The keyboard and monitor of a computer considered together.
(Engineering) The controlling portion of an electrical, electronic, or mechanical device or system, from which the operator may observe the state of the system as indicated by gauges or on some form of display[n3], and may direct or control the action of the system.
the desklike controlling unit of an organ containing the keyboard, pedals, stops, etc. by means of which the organ is played.
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a home entertainment device such as a television, radio, phonograph, CD player, or combination of these, designed as a piece of furniture, to stand on the floor rather than on a table or in a separate cabinet; -- also used attributively in the phrase console model.
Console table, a table whose top is supported by two or more consoles instead of legs.
Usage examples of "console model".
They discovered that they not only had enough for a table model TV, but that for another forty dollars they actually could have a console model.
Coke had hoped for a console model the equipment built into the table itself would have been perfect, if the cursed thing had worked but it didn't really matter.