The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσκιά“shadow”
- English todayskiatron
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσκιά all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
skiatron
Today it means: A kind of cathode ray tube that replaces the conventional light-emitting phosphor layer on the face of the tube screen with a scotophor such as potassium chloride. Full definition →
Ancient Greek σκιά