Usually means: Stream of electrons in vacuum.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cathode ray: Merriam-Webster
  2. cathode ray: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cathode ray: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cathode ray: Vocabulary.com
  5. cathode-ray, cathode ray: Wordnik
  6. cathode-ray, cathode ray: Wiktionary
  7. cathode ray: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. cathode ray: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cathode ray: Dictionary.com
  10. Cathode Ray, Cathode-ray, Cathode ray: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. cathode ray: Rhymezone
  12. cathode ray: FreeDictionary.org
  13. cathode ray: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. cathode ray: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cathode-ray, cathode ray: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Cathode-ray, cathode ray: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cathode Ray: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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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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