audion
audion — 名詞
1. an early type of vacuum tube with three electrodes inside, used in the first rad
三極真空管
早期無線電使用的三極放大管
an early type of vacuum tube with three electrodes inside, used in the first radios to make weak signals stronger
Emiko found an old audion inside her grandfather's wooden radio cabinet.
Emiko 在祖父的木製收音機櫃裡找到了一個老式的三極真空管。
The audion made it possible to hear voices across the Atlantic for the first time.
三極真空管讓人們第一次能夠聽到跨越大西洋的聲音。
pattern: made it possible to + verb for historical impact
Diego replaced the broken audion in the laboratory's signal amplifier.
Diego 更換了實驗室信號放大器裡壞掉的 audion。
Before the audion, radio receivers could only pick up Morse code dots and dashes.
在三極真空管出現之前，無線電接收器只能接收摩斯電碼的點和劃。
Engineers at the station used a single audion to boost the weak broadcast signal.
電台的工程師使用一個 audion 來增強微弱的廣播信號。
- triode
the generic technical term for any three-electrode vacuum tube; 'audion' is the original trade name
- vacuum tube
broader category that also includes diodes, tetrodes, and pentodes
- valve
British English equivalent of vacuum tube, used across all types
用法筆記
Historical term; refers specifically to Lee De Forest's original three-electrode design from 1906, not to later vacuum tubes in general.