cathode-ray oscilloscope

Questions about cathode-ray oscilloscope

What does cathode-ray oscilloscope mean?

cathode-ray oscilloscope means "electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities".

What is another word for cathode-ray oscilloscope?

Close synonyms include oscilloscope, scope, CRO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cathode-ray oscilloscope a common word?

cathode-ray oscilloscope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.