thermionic vacuum tube

Questions about thermionic vacuum tube

What does thermionic vacuum tube mean?

thermionic vacuum tube means "electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope".

What is another word for thermionic vacuum tube?

Close synonyms include tube, vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve. 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 vacuum tube a common word?

thermionic vacuum 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.