X-ray tube

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• X

  X, x, a character probably derived from the Greek Ξ (this form of that letter being found in some fe...

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• X

  ·- X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound ...

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• Ray

  ·vi To shine, as with rays. II. Ray ·vt To <<Array>>. III. Ray ·noun Array; order; arrangement; dr...

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• ray

  A line of sight. Also, a flat rhomboidal fish with a rough skin; genus, Raia. ...

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• Tube

  ·noun A <<Telescope>>. II. Tube ·noun One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. III. Tube ·vt To fu...

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• X rays

  ·add. ·noun ·pl ·Alt. of X-rays. ...

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• X-rays

  ·add. ·noun ·pl The Rontgen rays; — so called by their discoverer because of their enigmatical char...

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• Half-ray

  ·noun A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, ...

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• Ray grass

  ·- A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); — called also rye grass, and red darnel. ·see <<Dar...

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• Rontgen ray

  ·add. ·- Any of the rays produced when cathode rays strike upon surface of a solid (as the wall of t...

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• Sting ray

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Stingray>>. ...

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• Ray, John

  (1627-1705) Naturalist, s. of a blacksmith at Black Notley, Essex, was at Camb., where he became a ...

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• eagle-ray

  n. name belonging to any large Ray of the family Myliobatidae; the New Zealandspecies is Myliobatis...

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• horn-ray

  n. a New Zealand and Australian Ray, the fish Rhinobatus banksii, Mull and Heule.In this genus of R...

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• sting-ray

  A fish, Trygon pastinaca, which wounds with a serrate bone, lying in a sheath on the upper side of i...

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• whip-ray

  A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...

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• Crookes tube

  ·- A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a ...

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• Geissler tube

  ·- A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, w...

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• Hittorf tube

  ·add. ·- A Crookes tube. II. Hittorf tube ·add. ·- A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic elec...

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• Lenard tube

  ·add. ·- A tube for producing Lenard rays. ...

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• Pitot's tube

  ·- A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under wate...

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• Plucker tube

  ·add. ·- Crookes tube. II. Plucker tube ·add. ·- A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which...

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• Torpedo tube

  ·add. ·- A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a sm...

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• Tube-nosed

  ·adj Belonging to the Tubinares. II. Tube-nosed ·adj Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of h...

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• Tube-shell

  ·noun Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell. ...

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• Vortex tube

  ·add. ·- An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all p...

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• Water tube

  ·add. ·- Any tube for passing or holding water; specif., in some steam boilers, a tube in which wate...

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• friction-tube

  The means of firing a gun most in favour at present in the British service; ignition is caused by th...

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