Thermionics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The science dealing with thermionic emission. uncountable

    "The radioactivity subgroup turned to Kleeman, Crowther, and Campbell, and Richardson's influence on the thermionics subgroup continued even after he left the Cavendish."

  2. 2
    the branch of electronics dealing with thermionic phenomena (especially thermionic vacuum tubes) wordnet

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nuclear physicsquantum mechanicsradiologyscience

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"The radioactivity subgroup turned to Kleeman, Crowther, and Campbell, and Richardson's influence on the thermionics subgroup continued even after he left the Cavendish."

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