thermionic tube

Definitions

Electronics

• An electron tube which incorporates a thermionic cathode. Also called thermionic valve, or hot cathode tube.
• synonymthermionic valve

General Science

• noun an electronic component in which electrons are emitted from a heated cathode in a glass tube containing a vacuum

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Contexts for “thermionic tube”

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