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control grids

control grids is the plural of control grid.

Meaning of control grid

Noun

control grid (plural control grids)

  1. An electrode used in amplifying thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) such as the triode, tetrode and pentode, used to control the flow of electrons from the cathode to the anode. It usually consists of a cylindrical screen or helix of fine wire surrounding the cathode, and is surrounded in turn by the anode.

Questions about control grids

What is control grids the plural of?
Control grids is the plural of control grid.

Words near control grids in the dictionary

  1. control function
  2. control functions
  3. control gene
  4. control genes
  5. control grid
  6. control grids
  7. control group
  8. control groups
  9. control joint
  10. control joints
  11. control key

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