Digitron
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Digitron is a noun meaning Synonym of Nixie tube.
Meaning
Synonym of Nixie tube.
More Meanings
- (by extension) Any electronic device for displaying digits.
Example Sentences
The time is displayed to 0.0001 second in digital form by means of digitrons (nixie tubes).
The LEDs display and keystroke identifying are accomplished by using HD7279A, which is an intelligent control chip for 8-bit LED digitrons and 64-key keyboard with serial interface.
Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.
In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.
Word Forms
- digitrons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dixonary, dixery, digitalia, dic'snary, dictagraph, diode.
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