Usually means: Electrons emitted from vacuum tubes.
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  1. cathode rays: Merriam-Webster
  2. cathode rays: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cathode rays: Vocabulary.com
  4. cathode rays: Wiktionary
  5. Cathode rays: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. cathode rays: FreeDictionary.org
  7. cathode rays: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cathode rays: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Cathode rays: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cathode_ray as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cathode ray)

noun:  (electricity) A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric field.
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