vacuum tube
Noun
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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.
- thermionic valve or simply: valve (Britain and some other regions)
- electron tube
- French: tube électronique, tube à vide
- German: Elektronenröhre
- Italian: valvola termoionica
- Portuguese: válvula termiônica, válvula
- Russian: ла́мпа
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