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tube, in electronics: see electron tube electron tube, device consisting of a sealed enclosure in which electrons flow between electrodes separated either by a vacuum (in a vacuum tube) or by an ionized gas at low pressure (in a gas tube).
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See CRT and vacuum tube.

1.(hardware)tube - A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie.
2.(electronics)tube - electron tube.
3.(jargon)tube - (IBM) To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. "Tube me that note."
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Immediately the operation of boring was commenced; and by the aid of powerful machines, a few weeks later, the inner surface of the immense tube had been rendered perfectly cylindrical, and the bore of the piece had acquired a thorough polish.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
A similar tube was handed to each of the three, and the seven proceeded to distribute themselves at equal distances along a curved line between St.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
How now, he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, this smoking no longer soothes.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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