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grid circuit

American  

noun

Electronics.
  1. that part of a circuit that contains the cathode and the grid of a vacuum tube.


Etymology

Origin of grid circuit

First recorded in 1915–20


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Next we read the voltage impressed on the grid by reading the voltmeter in the grid circuit.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

In either case we shall find that we need to make a very much larger change in the voltage of the plate circuit than we have made in the voltage of the grid circuit.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

The next step is to shift the slider in the grid circuit until we have again the original value of current in the plate circuit.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

The chopper interrupts the oscillations surging through the grid circuit at a frequency that the ear can hear, that is to say, about 800 to 1,000 times per second.

From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

If you do this over and over again, taking always the same time for one round trip of the clip you will be impressing on the grid circuit an “alternating e. m. f.”

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

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