Definitions for pentodes

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pentodes pen·tode

Spelling: [pen-tohd]

IPA: /ˈpɛn toʊd/

Pentodes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in pentodes (deenopst).

Definitions for pentodes

noun

1. a vacuum tube having five electrodes, usually a plate, three grids, and a cathode, within the same envelope.

Origin of pentodes

1915-20; pent- + -ode²

Examples for pentodes

Remember how he went to all the trouble of building a pentode vacuum tube for a job that could have been done by transistors.