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• Vacuum Tube - a derogatory term - see 'bubble memory'.
• Often enough, television is just one vacuum tube watching another.
• When the world needs an enema...the tube will planted in America.
• Bubble Memory, n.: A derogatory term, usually referring to a person's intelligence.
  See also "vacuum tube"....
• glassfet /glas'fet/ n. [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] Syn.
  firebottle, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube....
• Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.
  -- Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television....
• glassfet: /glas'fet/ [by analogy with MOSFET, the acronym for `Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor'] n.
  Syn. {firebottle}, a humorous way to refer to a vacuum tube. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...