Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun crookes_tube

1 sense of crookes tube

Sense 1
Crookes tube -- (the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube)
       => cathode-ray tube, CRT -- (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)