thermionics

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒnɪks

Noun

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.