gas-discharge tube a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas
control grid,
grid a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
klystron an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation
magnetron a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators
triode a thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes; fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible
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electron tube -
Any of several devices consisting of a sealed chamber, either evacuated or filled with gas at low pressure, in which an electric current flows between electrodes.