Usually means: Early experimental electrical discharge tube.
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  1. Crookes tube: Merriam-Webster
  2. Crookes tube: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Crookes tube: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Crookes tube: Vocabulary.com
  5. Crookes tube: Wordnik
  6. Crookes tube: Wiktionary
  7. Crookes tube: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Crookes tube, crookes tube: Dictionary.com
  9. Crookes tube: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Crookes tube: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Crookes tube: Rhymezone
  12. Crookes tube: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. crookes tube: FreeDictionary.org
  14. crookes tube: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Crookes tube: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Crookes tube: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crooke's tube, Crookes tube: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crookes' tube: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Crookes tube)

▸ noun:  An early experimental electrical discharge tube by means of which cathode rays and X-rays were discovered.

Similar:
cathodegraph, Crookes layer, corona, Cath, crook, cathode, circline, cath., dacryocystography, crowfoot cell, more...

Opposite:
X-ray tube, Coolidge tube, vacuum tube

Phrases:
crookes radiographic tube, more...

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Similar:
cathodegraph, Crookes layer, corona, Cath, crook, cathode, circline, cath., dacryocystography, crowfoot cell, more...

Opposite:
X-ray tube, Coolidge tube, vacuum tube

Phrases:
crookes radiographic tube, more...



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