Usually means: Gas-filled tube, controlled rectifier.
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  4. thyratron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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▸ noun:  (electronics) Any of several types of thermoelectric valve once used as a high-speed switch

Similar:
thermoelectron, thermoratchet, thermovoltage, thermoelectronics, pentagrid converter, cryotron, thermoelement, thermion, thermionics, thermocouple, more...

Types:
mercury-arc valve, gas-filled tube, ignitron, trigger diode, more...

Adjectives:
small, typical, filled, second, vapor, single, 27a, element, certain, positive, negative

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Similar:
thermoelectron, thermoratchet, thermovoltage, thermoelectronics, pentagrid converter, cryotron, thermoelement, thermion, thermionics, thermocouple, more...

Types:
mercury-arc valve, gas-filled tube, ignitron, trigger diode, more...

Adjectives:
small, typical, filled, second, vapor, single, 27a, element, certain, positive, negative



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