Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low-pressure discharge tube used to study the properties of cathode rays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
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- noun An early
experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays andX-rays were discovered.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Sir William Crookes.]
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After Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist, one of its inventors.
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