vacuum tube

English

Vacuum tube.

Noun

vacuum tube (plural vacuum tubes)

(electronics) An electrical device containing a heated filament inside an evacuated container (generally a glass tube) and used to produce rectification (a diode vacuum tube), amplification or other functions.

Hypernyms

discrete component

Hyponyms

heptode (vacuum-tube heptode)
hexode (vacuum-tube hexode)
pentode (vacuum-tube pentode)
tetrode (vacuum-tube tetrode)
triode (vacuum-tube triode)
diode (vacuum-tube diode)

Synonyms

thermionic valve or simply: valve (Britain and some other regions)
electron tube

Coordinate terms

crystal (electronic crystal)
transistor (solid-state electronic device)

Derived terms

vacuum-state active electronic device

cathode-ray tube (CRT)
photomultiplier tube (PMT)

television tube
travelling-wave tube (TWT)

Translations

electrical device

Catalan: vàlvula f, tub de buit m
Czech: elektronka (cs) f
Danish: elektronrør n, radiorør n, forstærkerrør n
Dutch: elektronenbuis (nl) c, radiobuis (nl) c, vacuümbuis (nl) c
Finnish: elektroniputki (fi), tyhjiöputki
French: tube électronique (fr) m, tube à vide (fr) m
Georgian: ელექტრონის ლამპა (elekṭronis lamṗa)
German: Elektronenröhre (de) n
Italian: valvola termoionica f
Japanese: 真空管 (shinkūkan)
Latvian: elektronu lampa f

Norwegian: radiorør n
Polish: lampa próżniowa
Portuguese: válvula termiônica f, válvula (pt) f
Russian: ла́мпа (ru) f (lámpa)
Serbo-Croatian: elektronka (sh) f, elektronska cijev f, vakuumska cijev f
Swedish: elektronrör (sv) n, radiorör (sv) n, rör (sv) n
Tagalog: awanging tubo
Thai: หลอดสุญญากาศ, หลอดวิทยุ
Vietnamese: ống chân không

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