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digitron

digitron noun: synonym of Nixie tube.

Noun

digitron (plural digitrons)

  1. Synonym of Nixie tube.
    • Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.1961, British Communications and Electronics - Volume 8, Part 3, page 683
    • In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.1964, Izrailʹ Lʹvovich Kaganov, Electronics in industry, page 50
    Synonyms:
    Nixie tube
  2. (broadly) Any electronic device for displaying digits.
    • The LEDs display and keystroke identifying are accomplished by using HD7279A, which is an intelligent control chip for 8-bit LED digitrons and 64-key keyboard with serial interface.2011, Qihai Zhou, Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, →ISBN

Synonyms of digitron

Forms of digitron

pluraldigitrons

Origin of digitron

Blend of digital + electronic.

Questions about digitron

What does digitron mean?
Digitron means synonym of Nixie tube.
What part of speech is digitron?
Digitron is a noun.
What is the plural of digitron?
The plural of digitron is digitrons.

Words near digitron in the dictionary

  1. digitoxins
  2. digitoxose
  3. digitoxoses
  4. digitoxoside
  5. digitoxosides
  6. digitron
  7. digitrons
  8. digits
  9. digitule
  10. digitules
  11. digitus

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