Usage examples (31)

• In his electro-mysticism, the triode was as basic as the cross in Christianity.
• When I was a teenager learning about vacuum tubes, bias was a voltage applied to the grid of a triode.
• When I was a teenager bias was a voltage applied to the grid of a triode (a kind of vacuum tube): a necessary thing, not a bad thing.
• Adding one element to the diode makes it a triode, an extremely useful object that eventually would lead to electronics and computers.