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Definition of Electron tube
1. Noun. Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope.
Specialized synonyms: Acorn Tube, Diode, Rectifying Tube, Rectifying Valve, Electron Multiplier, Gas-discharge Tube, Klystron, Magnetron, Pentode, Television Pickup Tube, Television-camera Tube, Tetrode, Triode, X-ray Tube
Terms within: Anode, Cathode, Electrode, Control Grid, Grid, Plate
Group relationships: Circuit, Electric Circuit, Electrical Circuit
Generic synonyms: Electronic Device
Definition of Electron tube
1. Noun. (physics) Any of several devices consisting of a sealed chamber, either evacuated or filled with gas at low pressure, in which an electric current flows between electrodes. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Electron Tube
Literary usage of Electron tube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Radiotelegraphy by Ellery W. Stone (1919)
"electron tube AMPLIFIERS. 387. Combinations of more than one tube may be used to
secure the benefits of their amplifying properties. It is Fig. 124. ..."
2. War Work of the Bureau of Standards: April 1, 1921 by National Bureau of Standards, United States Bureau of Standards, United States (1921)
"The three-electrode electron tube is a simple device, known by a great many names,
such as vacuum tube, audion, valve, lamp, thermionic bulb, triode, ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Roentgenological Technique by Isaac Seth Hirsch (1919)
"In the Coolidge or electron tube, in which a complete vacuum exists ... In the
electron tube the concentration of the cathode stream is secured by an ..."
4. Theoretical and Practical Electrical Engineering: Comprising a Course of by Louis Denton Bliss (1922)
"Simple form of receiving circuit employing the audion electron tube as a detector.
receiver T. The aerial A is connected to the coil V, which is inductively ..."
5. Principles of Radio Communication by John Harold Morecroft, A. Pinto, Walter Andrew Curry (1921)
"Because of the deleterious effects of gas the electron tube must be very carefully
freed from any appreciable quantity of it. ..."
6. NBS Special Publication by United States National Bureau of Standards (1920)
"Electron-Tube Generators. One of the principal applications of the electron ...
Electron-Tube Detectors. A practical theory of detector action was worked ..."
7. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"The method here explained is an adaptation of the potentiometer method of measuring
the amplification constant of an electron tube. ..."