digitron

English

Etymology

Blend of digital +‎ electronic

Noun

digitron (plural digitrons)

1. Synonym of Nixie tube
   • 1961, British Communications and Electronics - Volume 8, Part 3, page 683:

     Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.

   • 1964, Izrailʹ Lʹvovich Kaganov, Electronics in industry, page 50:

     In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.

   • 1970, COSPAR Transactions - Issue 7, page 173:

     The time is displayed to 0.0001 second in digital form by means of digitrons (nixie tubes).

2. (by extension) Any electronic device for displaying digits.
   • 2011, Qihai Zhou, Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, →ISBN:

     The LEDs display and keystroke identifying are accomplished by using HD7279A, which is an intelligent control chip for 8-bit LED digitrons and 64-key keyboard with serial interface.

Anagrams

• trigonid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French digitron.

Noun

digitron n (plural digitroane)

1. digitron

Declension

Declension of digitron

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) digitron	digitronul	(niște) digitroane	digitroanele
genitive/dative	(unui) digitron	digitronului	(unor) digitroane	digitroanelor
vocative	digitronule		digitroanelor

References

• digitron in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Derived from the name of a Croatian company that specialized in manufacturing of pocket calculators.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǐɡitroːn/
• Hyphenation: di‧gi‧tron

Noun

dìgitrōn m (Cyrillic spelling дѝгитро̄н)

1. calculator

   Synonym: kalkùlātor

Declension

Declension of digitron

	singular	plural
nominative	digitron	digitroni
genitive	digitrona	digitrona
dative	digitronu	digitronima
accusative	digitron	digitrone
vocative	digitrone	digitroni
locative	digitronu	digitronima
instrumental	digitronom	digitronima

References

• “digitron” in Hrvatski jezični portal