thermionic current

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   an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission

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Questions about thermionic current

What does thermionic current mean?

thermionic current means "an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission".

Is thermionic current a common word?

thermionic current 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.