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Nixie tube

British  
/ ˈnɪksɪ /

noun

  1. electronics another name for digitron

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Heritage Series Pony is more my speed: a small, three-door concept that, I kid you not, has a Nixie tube speedometer and horsepower meter.

From The Verge • Nov. 15, 2021

The Burroughs Corp.'s popular Nixie tube, for example, contains ten overlapping electrodes that form the digits 0 to 9.

From Time Magazine Archive

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