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1. (n.) Crookes tube
a form of cathode-ray tube.

Etymology: (1880–85; after Sir W. Crookes)

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1. (noun) Crookes tube
the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube

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1. Crookes tube
a vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it

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