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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wall-mounted table whose top is supported by two or more consoles (brackets) instead of legs. 2 A table designed to fit against a wall, often styled with curved legs to look bracket-mounted.
WordNet
n. a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall [syn: console]
Usage examples of "console table".
The console table was a spindly affair, a platform on a single stalk of a leg.
The exception was a portrait that stood on the console table below the window.
Varak walked back to the console table, disengaged the Record button, rewound the tape and found the words he wanted to hear again.
Both women winced as Spencer ricocheted off a console table and sent a group of painted toy cavalry soldiers to the floor.
With a view of the foyer directly ahead, they 'could see that the corps of toy cavalry soldiers Spencer had knocked off the console table the evening before in his drunkenness had been carefully replaced.
I stood beside Arty, taking each sheet and holding it up for him to read, reading over his shoulder, then adding the sheet to the pile that grew up on the console table.
He found an empty cup on the console table and stooped to rinse it in the stream that cut across the veranda.
The open robe stiffened from beneath like drapes, and the top of the console table slightly raised his heavy sex and the light fleece above it.