Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope.
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Examples for "tube "
Examples for "tube "
1 A year later, a second tube was opened to serve downtown Manhattan.
2 John's voice, coming clear as day through the tube of seasoned meat.
3 The diaphragm and the speaking tube were the great sources of error.
4 The tube , N, indicates the level of the liquid in the vessel.
5 With the machine running, add 1 cup water through the feed tube .
1 It required the home-made vacuum tube to burn steadily when in use.
2 Under the curving vacuum tube a little further along, we found shelter.
3 Fleming's vacuum tube , however, represented a major breakthrough in the technology.
4 We stood back against the great curving side of the postal vacuum tube .
5 It was the first blood-collecting vacuum tube used on the runner.
1 Television be gan to look up a little in the middle thirties, after the electron tube was substituted for the mill-wheel.
2 I'd rather be a mass of electron tubes than a thing like a centipede-oh yes, I've seen that cartoon in yesterday's Chicago Tribune!
1 But she'd be dipped in dogshit before she'd believe that the disc was built by a thermionic valve technology.
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