thermionic emission

1. 1.

   the emission of electrons from very hot substances

   Synonymsthermal emission

   Broaderemission

Questions about thermionic emission

What does thermionic emission mean?

thermionic emission means "the emission of electrons from very hot substances".

What is another word for thermionic emission?

Close synonyms include thermal emission. 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 thermionic emission a common word?

thermionic emission 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.