Term: triode: a thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes; fluctuations of the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode which makes amplification possible
Candidate hypernym: artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole → 1
Candidate hypernym: home theater: television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater → 0
Candidate hypernym: boy wonder: an extremely talented young male person → 0
Candidate hypernym: belt: an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found → 0
Candidate hypernym: lepromatous leprosy: a very serious form of leprosy characterized by lesions that spread over much of the body and affecting many systems of the body → 0
Candidate hypernym: faille: a ribbed woven fabric of silk or rayon or cotton → 0
Candidate hypernym: chemical element: any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter → 0
Candidate hypernym: two-tier bid: a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares → 0
Candidate hypernym: achaean: the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea → 0
Candidate hypernym: capital: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis → 0
Candidate hypernym: liao: the dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125 → 0