cathode

Examples

• All

• His eyes were glued to the cathode-ray tube screen.

  Fiction book (1991)

• And underneath this black cover is the high resolution cathode ray tube.

• So those electrons coming off the cathode are going really fast, right?

  MIT OpenCourseWare

• His first order of business was to show that the cathode rays carried a negative charge.

  Academic text (1997)

• Rontgen was interested in experiments with cathode ray tubes and the quality of the produced rays.

  Academic text (1995)

• The two most common are scan addressing, used for cathode-ray tubes.

  Academic text (1992)

• He paired his new narrow beam with an unlikely technology, the cathode ray tube TV.

• The much higher-energy cathode rays that resulted were able to penetrate thin aluminum windows into the outside air.

  Academic text (1995)

• So an LCD is typically an LCD panel with a cathode backlight and then an LED TV is an LCD panel with LEDs behind it.

• In a vacuum tube, the electrons flow from the cathode to the anode, creating an electric current.

Antonyms

A

anode

• Specialized

2 5.5

The part in a battery where electric current enters or leaves, usually the positive terminal

Compounds

C

cathode ray

• Specialized

2 7.0

A stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that makes images on old television screens or similar devices

C

cathode-ray tube

• Archaic

1 6.0

A large glass device in old TVs and computer screens that makes pictures with a beam of electrons

C

cathode-ray oscilloscope

• Archaic

8.2

An electronic device that shows changing electrical signals as lines on a screen using a tube

C

cold cathode

• Specialized

6.7

A part inside some lamps and electronic devices that gives out electrons without being heated

Surface Forms

Etymology