television tube
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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An electron is accelerated between two charged metal plates as it might be in an old-model television tube or oscilloscope.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
The electron is given kinetic energy that is later converted to another form—light in the television tube, for example.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Though RCA now holds patents on the only color television tube to meet FCC standards.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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