photomultiplier tube
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of vacuum tube that detects electromagnetic radiation in the range from ultraviolet to infrared, including the visible spectrum, and them amplifies the detection induced current into an output signal