Definition of Electron tube

1. Noun. Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope.


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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electron Tube

electron radiation
electron radiography
electron resonance absorption
electron shell
electron spin resonance
electron spin resonance spectroscopy
electron trajectory
electron transfer flavin
electron transfer reaction
electron transfer reactions
electron transport
electron transport chain
electron transport particles
electron transport phosphorylation
electron transport system
electron tube
electron tubes
electron velocity
electron volt
electron volts
electron wave function
electron wave functions
electron wavelength
electronarcosis
electronation
electronations
electronegative
electronegative element
electronegatively
electronegativities

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. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Electron tube on Dictionary.com!Search for Electron tube on Thesaurus.com!Search for Electron tube on Google!Search for Electron tube on Wikipedia!

Search