thermionics

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thermionics (uncountable)

  1. The science dealing with thermionic emission.
    • 2013, Dong-Won Kim, Leadership and Creativity: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory:
      The radioactivity subgroup turned to Kleeman, Crowther, and Campbell, and Richardson's influence on the thermionics subgroup continued even after he left the Cavendish.