Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gas-discharge_tube

1 sense of gas-discharge tube

Sense 1
gas-discharge tube -- (a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas)
       => tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve -- (electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope)