tickler coil

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   a small coil in series with the anode of a vacuum tube and coupled to the grid to provide feedback

   Broadercoil

Questions about tickler coil

What does tickler coil mean?

tickler coil means "a small coil in series with the anode of a vacuum tube and coupled to the grid to provide feedback".

Is tickler coil a common word?

tickler coil 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.