Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrode that is the target in a cathode-ray tube, especially in an x-ray tube.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The plate, often of platinum, placed opposite the cathode in a vacuum-tube, on which the cathode rays, or streams of electrified particles, impinge and thus produce the Röntgen rays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Phys.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The opposite of a
cathode , ananode . - noun The target at which electrons from the cathode in a
CRT orx-ray tube are directed.
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X-ray tube, oscillatory sparks being excluded; and thus the anticathode is brought to send an X-radiation of extremely short duration through the gas before the lenses of a stereoscopic camera.
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The rays falling on the crystal were produced by X-ray tubes, platinum being at first used for the anticathode.
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