Wiktionary
n. a vacuum tube in which electrons from a heated cathode are focused and deflected onto a phosphorescent screen; used in television sets etc
WordNet
n. a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen [syn: CRT]
Usage examples of "cathode-ray tube".
If this is a cathode-ray tube type of screen, we have a little timing problem here in that the electron beam is currently at the right edge of the screen and now it's being asked to draw a pixel at the left edge.
If this is a cathode-ray tube type of screen, we have a little timing problem here in that the electron beam is currently at the right edge of the screen and now it’.
The undersides of his fingers and his palm resembled the surface of a cathode-ray tube.
Yatima was receiving gestalt tags broadcast by the cathode-ray tube icon, packed with supplementary information, but Orlando was tortuously reading the same things in linear text from a translation window pasted into the scape by his exoself.
His eyes lighted up with approval at the sonar depth finder, the radar with its ten-inch cathode-ray tube, the direction finder with its loop antenna and five-channel radio receiver.
There were a tiny computer keypad, a small cathode-ray tube, and eight-balls&mdash.
Instead of drawing lines on paper, however, they made blueprints on the cathode-ray tube of a computer.