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GAS-DISCHARGE TUBE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gas-discharge tube" is a kind of...):
electron tube; thermionic tube; thermionic vacuum tube; thermionic valve; tube; vacuum tube (electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gas-discharge tube"):
cathode-ray tube; CRT (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)
glow lamp (a gas-discharge tube with a hot cathode; used in stroboscopes)
glow tube (a gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas; the color of the glow depends on the particular gas)
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