vacuum tube
English
Vacuum tube.
Noun
vacuum tube (plural vacuum tubes)
- (electronics) An electrical device containing a heated filament inside an evacuated container (generally a glass tube) and used to produce rectification (a diode vacuum tube), amplification or other functions.
Hypernyms
- discrete component
Hyponyms
- heptode (vacuum-tube heptode)
- hexode (vacuum-tube hexode)
- pentode (vacuum-tube pentode)
- tetrode (vacuum-tube tetrode)
- triode (vacuum-tube triode)
- diode (vacuum-tube diode)
Synonyms
- thermionic valve or simply: valve (Britain and some other regions)
- electron tube
Coordinate terms
- crystal (electronic crystal)
- transistor (solid-state electronic device)
Derived terms
vacuum-state active electronic device
- cathode-ray tube (CRT)
- photomultiplier tube (PMT)
- television tube
- travelling-wave tube (TWT)
Translations
electrical device
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