triode

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ -ode.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.əʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.oʊd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəʊd

Noun

triode (plural triodes)

1. A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from cathode to anode, which makes amplification possible.

Related terms

• diode
• pentode

Translations

thermionic valve

• Bashkir: триод (triod)
• Bulgarian: триод m (triod)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三極管 / 三极管 (zh) (sānjíguǎn)

• Finnish: triodi
• French: triode (fr) f
• Hungarian: trióda (hu)
• Japanese: 三極管 (さんきょくかん, sankyokukan)
• Kazakh: триод (triod)
• Kyrgyz: триод (triod)
• Macedonian: триода (mk) (trioda)
• Russian: трио́д (ru) m (triód)
• Spanish: triodo (es) m
• Swedish: triod (sv) c
• Tagalog: talundas
• Vietnamese: ống ba cực

Anagrams

• doiter, dotier, editor, rioted, tie rod, tierod