pentode

[ pen-tohd ]

nounElectronics.
  1. a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.

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Origin of pentode

1
1915–20; pent- + -ode2

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How to use pentode in a sentence

  • Remember how he went to all the trouble of building a pentode vacuum tube for a job that could have been done by transistors.

    Anything You Can Do | Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for pentode

pentode

/ (ˈpɛntəʊd) /


noun
  1. an electronic valve having five electrodes: a cathode, anode, and three grids

  2. (modifier) (of a transistor) having three terminals at the base or gate

Origin of pentode

1
C20: from penta- + Greek hodos way

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Scientific definitions for pentode

pentode

[ pĕntōd′ ]


  1. Any electron tube with the basic structure and functionality of a triode, but including two extra electrodes, a screen and a suppressor grid. The screen helps the tube respond well at high frequencies (as in a tetrode), while a negatively charged suppressor grid adjacent to the plate prevents secondary emission of electrons from the plate, increasing the efficiency of the tube. See more at suppressor.

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