Associations to the word «Pentode»

Wiktionary

PENTODE, noun. A thermionic valve similar to a tetrode with the addition of a suppressor grid; was used in high quality audio and radio products

Dictionary definition

PENTODE, noun. A thermionic tube having five electrodes.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope