a tetrode used to generate high power at high frequencies
Word origin
C20: from resonator + -tron
resnatron in American English
(ˈreznəˌtrɑn)
noun
Electronics
a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency
Word origin
[res(o)na(tor) + -tron]-tron is a combining form extracted from electron, used with nouns or combining forms, principally in the names of electron tubes (ignitron; klystron; magnetron) and of devices for accelerating subatomic particles (cosmotron; cyclotron); also, more generally, in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used inexperiments (biotron)