rectifying valve

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   a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier

   Synonymsdioderectifying tube

   Broadertube

Questions about rectifying valve

What does rectifying valve mean?

rectifying valve means "a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier".

What is another word for rectifying valve?

Close synonyms include diode, rectifying 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 rectifying valve a common word?

rectifying valve 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.