CROOKES TUBE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Crookes tube" is a kind of...):

cathode-ray tube; CRT (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)

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