proportional counter

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   counter tube whose output pulse is proportional to number of ions produced

   Synonymsproportional counter tube

   Broadercounter tube

   Narrowerboron counter tube

Questions about proportional counter

What does proportional counter mean?

proportional counter means "counter tube whose output pulse is proportional to number of ions produced".

What is another word for proportional counter?

Close synonyms include proportional counter tube. 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 proportional counter a common word?

proportional counter 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.