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Audion
For Audion we have terms and definitions in 2 topics. The topics are Radio and Transistors.
Audion (Radio) 
"Audion" was the name Lee de Forest gave to his greatest invention, the radio tube. Resembling a light bulb, the Audion could detect radio waves, and regulate their flow.
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Audion (Transistors)
A special kind of vacuum tube which can be used to amplify weak electric signals. The audion was used in the Bell phone system, as well as in early radios and computers. It was eventually replaced in most applications by the transistor.
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