Term: cathode-ray tube: a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: manila hemp: a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: baffled: people who are frustrated and perplexed
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: alla breve: a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: obligation: a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: quahog: an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: dynamiter: a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: schlockmeister: (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: palmae: chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: water speedwell: plant of wet places in Eurasia and America
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: epsilon toxin: a bacterial toxin produced by clostridium perfringens; causes intense abdominal cramps and diarrhea that begins 8-22 hours after consumption of foods containing large numbers of these bacteria