Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electron tube used to amplify or generate ultrahigh frequency by means of velocity modulation.
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- noun physics an
electron tube used toamplify microwave -frequency electromagnetic radiation .
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- noun an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Working at Columbia University, he and graduate student James Gordon built a contraption in which a generator called a klystron, emitting radiation at microwave frequencies, excites a beam of ammonia molecules.
Let There Be Light 2008
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The electron microscope is one, the klystron, which supplies power to radar systems another.
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The electron microscope is one, the klystron, which supplies power to radar systems another.
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To do so they combined the positive aspects of a magnetron (its high power output) and of a klystron tube (a device that used resonant cavities to amplify microwaves).
The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009
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The beam transmitting THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
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The beam transmitting THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
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The beam transmitting THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
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I did however get cancer that looks like it might be coming back, and my lawyers say that it's probably from being exposed to ionizing radiation from working on unshielded klystron tubes that had 30,000 volts of electricity running through them and glowed eerily green, but that has yet to be proven in court.
What You Wanted to Know About Bush and Iraq, but Were Afraid to Ask 2007
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It housed enormous banks of klystron batteries and the air seemed to vibrate with a mechanical hum.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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It housed enormous banks of klystron batteries and the air seemed to vibrate with a mechanical hum.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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