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vacuum tube

NOUN
electronic device
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Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

In the 1920s, once the vacuum tube and the triode had been developed, commercial radio that broadcast news, music, and radio plays became available as well.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Dr. Ashkin worked at a Columbia University laboratory during World War II, developing a magnetron — a vacuum tube that generates microwaves — as part of an Army radar program.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2020

If you put a million volts into a vacuum tube, you could be sure only of blasting the tube to bits.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik



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