Definitions for pentode

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pentode pen·tode

Spelling: [pen-tohd]

IPA: /ˈpɛn toʊd/

Pentode is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in pentode (deenopt).

Definitions for pentode

noun

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

Origin of pentode

1915-20; pent- + -ode²

Examples for pentode

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