- pentagrid
- pen·ta·grid
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pentagrid
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pentagrid — ˈpentəˌgrid adjective Etymology: penta + grid : having five grids a pentagrid converter … Useful english dictionary
Pentagrid converter — For other types of frequency converters please, see Frequency converter. The pentagrid converter is a radio receiving valve (vacuum tube) with five grids used as the frequency mixer stage of a superheterodyne radio receiver. Grids of a 12SA7GT… … Wikipedia
pentagrid — noun A tiling of the hyperbolic plane with regular pentagons … Wiktionary
pentagrid — /ˈpɛntəgrɪd/ (say pentuhgrid) noun Electronics → heptode …
pentagrid converter — noun A compound thermionic valve used in superheterodyne radio receivers … Wiktionary
List of vacuum tubes — This is a list of vacuum tubes or thermionic valves. Before the advent of semiconductor devices, hundreds of tube types were used in consumer and industrial electronics; today only a few types are still used in specialized applications. Contents… … Wikipedia
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Superheterodyne receiver — A 5 tube superheterodyne receiver made in Japan around 1955 In electronics, a superheterodyne receiver (sometimes shortened to superhet) uses frequency mixing or heterodyning to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency, which… … Wikipedia
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All American Five — The All American Five was a mass produced, superheterodyne radio receiver with five vacuum tubes first designed and produced in the USA in the 1930s.The radio was called the All American Five because the design represented the majority of radios… … Wikipedia
