| NOUN | artifact | gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
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| Meaning | A tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas. | |
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| Narrower | cathode-ray tube, CRT | A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen |
| glow lamp | A gas-discharge tube with a hot cathode | |
| glow tube | A gas-discharge tube consisting of a cold cathode and a diode in a tube filled with gas | |
| Broader | tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
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