digitron
English
Etymology
Blend of digital + electronic
Noun
digitron (plural digitrons)
- Synonym of Nixie tube
- 1961, British Communications and Electronics - Volume 8, Part 3, page 683:
- Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.
- 1964, Izrailʹ Lʹvovich Kaganov, Electronics in industry, page 50:
- In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.
- 1970, COSPAR Transactions - Issue 7, page 173:
- The time is displayed to 0.0001 second in digital form by means of digitrons (nixie tubes).
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- (by extension) Any electronic device for displaying digits.
- 2011, Qihai Zhou, Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, →ISBN:
- The LEDs display and keystroke identifying are accomplished by using HD7279A, which is an intelligent control chip for 8-bit LED digitrons and 64-key keyboard with serial interface.
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Anagrams
- trigonid
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Derived from the name of a Croatian company that specialized in manufacturing of pocket calculators.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dǐɡitroːn/
- Hyphenation: di‧gi‧tron
Noun
dìgitrōn m (Cyrillic spelling дѝгитро̄н)
- calculator
Declension
Declension of digitron
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | digitron | digitroni |
| genitive | digitrona | digitrona |
| dative | digitronu | digitronima |
| accusative | digitron | digitrone |
| vocative | digitrone | digitroni |
| locative | digitronu | digitronima |
| instrumental | digitronom | digitronima |
Synonyms
- kalkùlātor
References
- “digitron” in Hrvatski jezični portal