1. The path by which an electric current leaves the electrolyte and passes into the negative pole.
2. The point or surface in contact with the negative pole; in electro-metallurgy the object to be electro-plated.
3. A negatively charged electrode, as of an electrolytic cell, a storage battery, or an electron tube.
4. The positively charged terminal of a primary cell or a storage battery that is supplying current.
5. Etymology: from Greek kathodos, "descent" (kat-, kata-, cata-) + hodos, "way, path".

1. A cathode ray tube in which the beam of electrons produced in the tube's filament is deflected by a magnetic field.
2. A cathode-ray tube in which electromagnetic deflection is used on the electron beam.

1. A small cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which the pattern varies with the voltage applied to the grid which is used to indicate the accuracy of tuning in a radio receiver.
2. A small cathode-ray tube having a fluorescent pattern whose size varies with the voltage applied to the grid.

It is used in radio receivers to indicate the accuracy of tuning and as a modulation indicator in some tape recorders.

1. A small cathode-ray tube having a fluorescent screen on which the pattern varies with the voltage applied to the grid that is used chiefly in radio receivers to indicate accuracy of tuning.
2. A special-purpose electron tube in which electrons are accelerated by high-voltage anodes, formed into a beam by focusing electrodes, and projected toward a phosphorescent screen that forms one face of the tube.

To form a display, or image, on the screen, the electron beam is deflected in the vertical and horizontal directions either by the electrostatic effect of electrodes within the tube or by magnetic fields produced by coils located around the neck of the tube.

3. A type of recording-level indicator using a luminous display in a special tube.

The display is usually like an "eye" with a keyhole in the middle, and the maximum recording level corresponds to the closing-up of a slot at the bottom of the keyhole which is superseded by meters in current-model recorders.

A tool in which a beam of electrons is deflected by an electric or magnetic field (or both).

Usually the beam is made to strike a fluorescent screen so the deflection can be observed.

A cathode-ray tube in which electrostatic deflection is used on the electron beam.

A cathode-ray tube is a vacuum tube in which a stream of electrons is accelerated and focused in a beam that produces traces of light on a screen at one end of the tube and which is used in television sets, computer monitors, and as an indicator in radar sets, etc.

A hot cathode heated primarily by ionic bombardment of the emitting surface.