thermionic valve:  an electronic component which allows the control of one or more power supplies or signals by one or more other signals, based on emissions from hot electrodes (hence ‘thermionic’) in either a near-vacuum (hence also known as vacuum tubes) or an inert gas (typically ‘cold cathode’ valves, which are only hot rather than red-hot), contained in a glass envelope

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