control grid

1. 1.

   an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube

   Synonymsgrid

   Broaderelectrode

   Part oftube

Questions about control grid

What does control grid mean?

control grid means "an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube".

What is another word for control grid?

Close synonyms include grid. 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 control grid a common word?

control grid 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.