vacuum tube
Example Sentences
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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
To measure this force within their vacuum tube, the researchers will suspend two samples made of different materials from a two-meter-tall, 1.50-meter-wide balance and induce the Casimir effect within one.
From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 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
There were no windows, for there was no scenery to see in the subsurface vacuum tube.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
