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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES cathode ray tube COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN ray ▪ Indeed, much development work is required before cathode ray tube performance can be attained. ▪ Male speaker Joe was more interested in wires and cathode ray tubes. ...
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A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device. (This definition can be recalled by using the mnemonic CCD for cathode current departs .) A conventional current describes the direction in which positive ...
Usage examples of cathode.
Curious bluish jolts of light were emitted undependably from its cathodes.
A set of flat color cathodes arranged on the end wall to resemble a stained-glass window added a certain ecclesiastical air.
Then the cathode ray tube lit up and the slowly revolving timebase drew the picture I had seen so often before.
We must have every foot of space on board packed with extra cathode plates for the geodyne generators.
He contrived to use up the last scrap of cathode plate and the last drop of rocket fuel, in landing here.
The very cathode plates are warped, so that they can never be tuned again.
Just one more landing first, at some out-station, to get food and cathode plates.
Tolentino threw a few electrical switches and the cathode tube monitor of the fluoroscopy unit gave off a light-gray glow.
The cold green, amber and red of the electronics was punctuated by the occasional small patch of cathode blue.
She led the way to a computer terminal-a keyboard with a cathode ray screen above it-and sat down.
They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg.
And that tube burnt him, nuked him, its cathodes crackling like cancer.
What Crookes himself thought about these discoveries in the realm of the cathode rays we may judge from the title, 'Radiant Matter', or 'The Fourth State of Matter', which he gave to his first publication about them.
That had been preceded by the discovery of radio waves and cathode rays, and it was to be rapidly followed by the discovery of alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays.
The ammonium ion, once the electric current is run through, is attracted to the cathode, which-is in the spoon.