audion

[ aw-dee-uhn, -on ]

noun

, Electronics.

1. an early type of triode.

Word History and Origins

Origin of audion¹

Formerly a trademark

Example Sentences

One such receiver is the audion, which we shall now describe.

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If you want to hear clearly and keep outside radio out of your machine, use a regenerative radio set with an audion detector.

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These Vesta batteries are the "A" batteries used for heating the filaments of the audion bulbs.

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This is the audion, which is the distinguishing feature of the De Forest wireless telegraph and wireless telephone.

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The audion is a small glass bulb from which the air is exhausted to a high degree of vacuum.

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