| system | description | 
| ADT | ARC Discharge Tube | 
| AMT | Accelerometer Tube | 
| ATR | anti TR tube | 
| BAR | Barretter | 
| BDM | Beam Deflection Mixer | 
| BDT | Beam Deflection Tube | 
| BOL | Bolo Meter Device | 
| BST | Beam Switching Tube (Trochotron) | 
| BWA | Backward Wave Amplifier | 
| BWC | Backward Wave Converter | 
| BWO | Backward Wave Oscillator (Voltage Tuned Oscillator) (Carnitron) | 
| c | current regulator | 
| CDC | CRT Deflection Coil | 
| CDT`° | character display tube (nixie) | 
| CFT | Crossed Field Tube (Carpitron) | 
| CHR | Chronotron | 
| CNT | counter tube | 
| CPR | Crystal Protector | 
| CRB | cathode ray tube  black-white | 
| CRC | cathode ray tube  color | 
| CRM | cathode ray tube  monochrome monitor | 
| CRO | cathode ray tube  oscillograph | 
| CRP | cathode ray tube  projecting | 
| CRR | cathode ray tube  radar | 
| CRS | cathode ray tube  storage | 
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | 
| CRX | Cathode Ray Tube special purpose | 
| CRY | Crystal | 
| CTD | Control Diode | 
| CVT° | Convectron | 
| d | diode | 
| DCT | decade counter tube | 
| DCT`° | cold cathode, gas filled, decade counter tube | 
| dd | double diode | 
| ddd | tripple diode | 
| dddt | tripple diode and triode | 
| ddp | double diode and pentode | 
| ddP | double diode and power-pentode | 
| ddq | double diode and tetrode | 
| ddt | double diode and triode | 
| dH | diode and heptode | 
| DLL | Dummy Load Lamp | 
| dp | diode and pentode | 
| dP | diode and power-pentode | 
| dq | diode and tetrode | 
| DRT`° | cold cathode, gas filled, decade register tube | 
| DST | Display Storage Tube | 
| dt | diode and triode | 
| dti | diode and indicator with amplifying triode | 
| dtp | diode, triode and pentode | 
| dtP | diode, triode and power-pentode | 
| DXT | Duplexer Tube | 
| e | enneode | 
| EDU | Educational Tubes | 
| EIP | Evaporation Ion Pump | 
| EXC | Excitron | 
| FET | Field Effect Tube (= Neotron, field effect tube, magnetically beamed triode) | 
| FLT | flash tube | 
| FSS | flying spot scanner | 
| FTO | fixed-tuned oscillator tube | 
| FUS | fuse | 
| FWA | forward wave amplifier (TWT) | 
| GCR | Grid Controlled Rectifier | 
| GDT | Gas Discharge Tube | 
| GFI`° | Gas Filled Indicator | 
| GLT | Gas Laser Tube | 
| GMT | Glow Modulator Tube | 
| GRD | guard ring diode | 
| GST | Gas Switching Tube | 
| H | heptode | 
| h | hexode | 
| i° | indicator, gas filled | 
| ICT | Image Converter Tube | 
| IGN | ignitron | 
| ii | double indicator | 
| IIT | Image Intensifier | 
| IMG | camera tubes | 
| IMT | Image Tube | 
| INJ | Injectron | 
| KLY | klystron | 
| LDR | Light Dependent Resistor | 
| MAG | magnetron | 
| MCM | Mercury coulometer | 
| MET | Mechano-Electronic Transducer | 
| MFS | Microwave Frequency Standard | 
| MOD | Monitor Diode | 
| NCT | Noise Generating Crystal Tube | 
| NEL | Neon  Lamp | 
| NET | Neon Tube | 
| NOD | noise diode | 
| NOG | noise generator | 
| NOS | noise source | 
| o | octode | 
| OBH | Orbital Beam Hexode | 
| ORT | Image Orthicon | 
| OSC | Oscillator | 
| p | pentode | 
| P | power pentode or beam tetrode | 
| p~ | transmitting pentode | 
| P~ | transmitting power-pentode >=10W | 
| PDT | Protective Discharge Tube | 
| PEC | PhotoElectric Cell | 
| PHA | Phasitron | 
| PHD | photodiode | 
| PHM | photomultiplier | 
| PHT | phototube | 
| PHT° | phototube, gas filled | 
| pi | pentode and indicator | 
| PLC | Plumbicon color | 
| PLU | Plumbicon | 
| PML | Power Measurement Lamp | 
| pp | double pentode | 
| PP | dual power-pentode | 
| pP | pentode and power-pentode | 
| PP~ | dual transmitting power-pentode >=10W | 
| PPC | Passive Protection Cell | 
| PPT | passive protection tube | 
| PS | Power Supply | 
| PSO | Pulsed-type Stabilotron Oscillator | 
| PTR | Pre-TR tube | 
| Q | power-tetrode | 
| q | tetrode | 
| q`° | cold cathode, gas filled, tetrode | 
| Q~ | transmitting power-tetrode >=10W | 
| q~ | transmitting tetrode | 
| q° | tetrode, gas filled | 
| qq | double tetrode | 
| qq~ | double transmitting tetrode | 
| QQ~ | dual transmitting power-tetrode >=10W | 
| r | rectifier diode | 
| R | rectifier diode >=1kV | 
| r`° | cold cathode, gas filled rectifier | 
| r° | rectifier <1kV, gas filled | 
| R° | rectifier >=1kV, gas filled | 
| RCT | radiation counter tube | 
| RCY | Reference Cavity | 
| REL | relay | 
| RGC | rare gas cartridge | 
| rP | rectifier and power-pentode | 
| rr | double rectifier | 
| rr`° | double, cold cathode, gas filled, rectifier | 
| rr° | double gas filled rectifier | 
| rrr° | tripple gas filled, rectifier | 
| RST | Recording Storage Tube | 
| RYV | relay valve | 
| SAD | saturated diode | 
| SAR | Surge Arrester | 
| SBT | Sheet Beam Tube | 
| sem | semiconductor | 
| SEN | Sendytron | 
| SET | secondary emission tube | 
| SGM | spark gap modulator tube | 
| SGT | Spark Gap Tube | 
| SKT | Socket | 
| SLS | Special Light Source | 
| SMT | Spectrometer Tube | 
| STR | Strobotron | 
| SWD | switching diode | 
| T | power-triode | 
| t | triode | 
| t`° | cold cathode, gas filled, triode | 
| T~ | transmitting power-triode >=10W | 
| t~ | transmitting triode | 
| t° | triode, gas filled | 
| T° | triode, gas filled (switching) | 
| TAC | Tacitron | 
| TBC | TB-Cell | 
| TBD | To Be Defined | 
| TBT | Touch Button Tube | 
| TGT | Trigatron | 
| tH | triode hepode | 
| th | triode hexode | 
| THC | Thermocouple | 
| THY | Thyratron | 
| ti | indicator with amlifier triode | 
| tii | double sensitivity indicator with amplifier triode | 
| titi | double indicator with amlifier triodes | 
| tp | triode and pentode | 
| tP | triode and power-penthode | 
| tPP | triode and double power-pentode | 
| tq | triode and tetrode | 
| TRC | Tunable Reference Cavity | 
| TRI`° | cold cathode, gas filled, trigger tube (small thyratron) | 
| TRI° | gas filled, trigger tube (small thyratron) | 
| TRT | Transmit-Receive Tube (TR cell) | 
| TT | double power triode | 
| tt | double triode | 
| tT | triode and power-triode | 
| TT~ | double transmitting power tetrode >=10W | 
| tt~ | double transmitting triode | 
| ttp | double triode and pentode | 
| ttt | tripple triode | 
| TVG | Triggered Vacuum Gap | 
| TWT | travelling wave tube | 
| v`° | cold cathode, gas filled voltage regulator | 
| VAC | Vacuum Capacitor | 
| VGH | Vacuum Gauge Head | 
| VGR | Vacuum Gauge, Resistance | 
| VGT | Vacuum Gauge Tube | 
| VIC | Vidicon | 
| VMC | Vibrating Capacitor | 
| VMO | Velocity Modulated Oscillator (Klystron) | 
| VMT | V. M. Tube | 
| VSW | Vacuum Switch | 
| XRT | X-ray Tube |