gas-discharge tube

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   a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas

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Questions about gas-discharge tube

What does gas-discharge tube mean?

gas-discharge tube means "a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas".

Is gas-discharge tube a common word?

gas-discharge tube 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.