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Definition of Thermionic vacuum 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermionic Vacuum Tube
Literary usage of Thermionic vacuum tube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Telegraph Engineering: A Manual for Practicing Telegraph Engineers and by Erich Hausmann (1922)
"... "thermionic vacuum tube and Its Applications," and in books on radio communication. ..."
2. Transactions (1921)
"Development of the thermionic vacuum tube into a reliable and stable instrument
for amplification, modulation and demodulation. 2. ..."
3. Within the Atom: A Popular View of Electrons and Quanta by John Mills (1921)
"The thermionic vacuum tube. Electrons emitted by a heated filament, F, are drawn
across a highly evacuated space to a plate, P. The stream is very sensitive ..."
4. Within the Atom: A Popular View of Electrons and Quanta by John Mills (1921)
"3 The thermionic vacuum tube. Electrons emitted by a heated filament, F, are
drawn across a highly evacuated space to a plate, P. The stream is very ..."
5. Within the Atom: A Popular View of Electrons and Quanta by John Mills (1921)
"3 The thermionic vacuum tube. Electrons emitted by a heated filament, F, are
drawn across a highly evacuated space to a plate, P. The stream is ..."
6. American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory by Jaques Cattell, Jaques Cattell Press (1921)
"Eng; Radio Eng. Conduction of electricity in high vacua ; thermionic vacuum tube.
Bill, Dr. E(arl) Gordon, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Mathematics. ..."
7. The Principles Underlying Radio Communication by Richard Sheldon Ould, United States Army. Signal Corps (1922)
"The thermionic vacuum tube and Its Applications;" JH Morecroft, " Principles of
Radio Communication;" John Scott-Taggart, " Thermionic Tubes in Radio ..."
8. Information Assurance: Trends in Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Technologies by Jacques S. Gansler, Hans Binnendijk (2004)
"... speculated that such weapons are highly developed and may be near operational
deployment.4 They can use a wide assortment of thermionic (vacuum tube), ..."
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