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  1. n. An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube

Etymologies

  1. After Sir William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist and physicist, one of its inventors. (Wiktionary)

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