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vacuum tube

NOUN
electronic device
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Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

In the last century, our capacity to store and process data has soared, with electronics marching from the vacuum tube to the transistor to today’s semiconductor chips.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023

It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

At the bank drive-through, they watched endorsed checks whoosh through the vacuum tube toward the teller waiting at the window.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

At first I thought the radio’s vacuum tube had blown, but then a man’s voice came on the radio.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz