TRIODE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes
   • fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which making amplification possible
   Hypernyms(s) triode is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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