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Nixie tube

Meaning of "Nixie tube" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NIXIE TUBE

ˈnɪksɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIXIE TUBE

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Nixie tube is a noun.
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WHAT DOES NIXIE TUBE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nixie tube

A Nixie tube, or cold cathode display, is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge. The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode and multiple cathodes, shaped like numerals or other symbols. Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon and often a little mercury or argon, in a Penning mixture. Although it resembles a vacuum tube in appearance, its operation does not depend on thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode. It is therefore called a cold-cathode tube, or a variant of neon lamp. Such tubes rarely exceed 40 °C even under the most severe of operating conditions in a room at ambient temperature. Vacuum fluorescent displays from the same era use completely different technology - they have a heated cathode together with a control grid and shaped phosphor anodes; Nixies have no heater or control grid, typically a single anode, and shaped bare metal cathodes.

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Synonyms and antonyms of Nixie tube in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Nixie tube» into 25 languages

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The translations of Nixie tube from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Nixie tube» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

数码管
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

tubo Nixie
570 millions of speakers
en

English

Nixie tube
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Nixie ट्यूब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أنبوب Nixie
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Русалка труба
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

tubo de Nixie
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

নিক্সি নল
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Nixie Tube
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tiub Nixie
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Nixie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ニキシー管
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

배달 불능 우편물 튜브
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nixie tabung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đèn nixie
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நிக்ஸி குழாய்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

निक्सी ट्यूब
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Nixie tüpü
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

Nixie tube
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Nixie tube
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

русалка труба
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

tub Nixie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Nixie σωλήνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

water gees buis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Nixie röret
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Nixie tube
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIXIE TUBE»

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Ele Dev & Cir 2E
The Nixie tube is a non-planar display device. It is gaseous glow tube having a set of electrodes, each shaped in the form of a digit. When a particular digit is selected, the corresponding electrode is surrounded by a gaseous discharge and  ...
Salivahanan, 2008
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Articles on Vacuum Tube Displays, Including: Cathode Ray ...
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Hephaestus Books, 2011
3
ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTATION, 3E
... of 1–5 mA. Indicators and Display Devices 45 5. The Nixie tube can. Fig. 2.15 ( a) Matrix operation of display panel using gas filled devices (b) and (c) nixie tube Fig. 2.18 (b) Common anode connections (c) Common cathode connections.
KALSI, 2012
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Articles on Neon Lighting, Including: Nixie Tube, Neon Lamp, ...
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Hephaestus Books, 2011
5
Neon: Isotopes of Neon, Neon Lighting, Nixie Tube, Neon ...
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LLC Books, 2010
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Electronic Devices and Circuits
(b) display system of Nixie tube Fig. 18.22 The basic construction of a digital indicator Nixie tube is shown in Fig. 18.22. The device works on the principle that when a gas breaks down, a glow discharge is produced. A gauze electrode with a ...
Salivahanan, 1998
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Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions
Electronic numerical devices need alternative forms of display. Several types of electronic digital displays were developed in the twentieth century. One of these was the Nixie tube, developed by Burroughs. A Nixie tube was cylindrical glass, ...
David John Cole, Eve Browning, Fred E. H. Schroeder, 2003
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Measurements And Instrumentation
The construction of the nixie tube is as shown in the Fig. 5.62. It consists 10 cathode and one anode, all are made of thin wires. But only difference is anode is in the form of thin frame. (a) (b) (c) Fig. 5.62 Nixie tube When a gas near cathode ...
U.A.Bakshi, A.V.Bakshi, 2009
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Nixie Tube
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
10
Vacuum Electronics: Components and Devices
An often unknown fact is that the first display application of plasma was the NIXIE tube, as briefly described in the historical development of vacuum displays (Sect. 2.1.1). The technology of plasma displays was invented in the early 1960s, ...
Joseph A. Eichmeier, Manfred Thumm, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIXIE TUBE»

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Quarter-Sized, Magnetically Stackable Modules for Students and …
Did you spot the mCookie-based Nixie-tube clock in corner (I love Nixie tubes). It's really interesting to see an mCookie module stack being ... «EE Times, May 15»
2
This Incredible 3D Printed Robotic Lamp Follows Objects As They …
In the past, he has designed several really unique creations such as an iPhone geiger counter, nixie tube reverse geocache box, and a robotic ... «3DPrint.com, May 15»
3
Building steampunk clocks from Soviet-era Nixie cold cathode tubes
"The biggest appeal of a Nixie tube — it really captivates people when they see it — is the changing of the numbers," Miller told On The Island's ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»
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Blub Uno Clock Displays Time with One Nixie Tube
We've seen our share of Nixie tube clocks, but the Blub Uno is different. This is a clock that displays time with just a single Nixie tube. One tube ... «Technabob, Feb 15»
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The Nixie Machine and Other Mechanical Marvels At MB&F's MAD …
A Nixie tube is an electronic device that is a variant of a neon lamp, which displays numbers and other information. It also is known as a cold ... «Forbes, Feb 15»
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The Blub Uno tube clock is the coolest, most inefficient way to tell time
The USB-powered clock is made of a single Nixie tube — a cold-cathode tube introduced in the 1950s as a way to display numbers digitally ... «The Verge, Feb 15»
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MB&F unveils its Nixie machine
A Nixie tube, the name believed to be short for “Numeric Indicator eXperimental No.1”, uses a neon-based gas in a glass cylinder identical in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
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You'll Waste Hours Watching the Time Tick By On this Nixie Tube
Though the technology is ludicrously outdated, Nixie tubes have actually remained a popular alternative to LEDs and LCD displays—at least in ... «Gizmodo, Jan 15»
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Raspberry Pi Powered Nixie Tube Calculator Hits Kickstarter For …
The Raspberry Pi powered Nixie Tube calculator has been created by Scott Baker, who is now looking to raise $20,000 in funding to help take ... «Geeky Gadgets, Nov 14»
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DIY Nixie Tube Clock Kit offers retro time telling capability
The DIY Nixie Tube Clock Kit will let you enjoy fun with the “LEDs” of yesteryear, where this limited-edition DIY kit will target makers. Of course ... «Coolest Gadgets, Jul 14»
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