1. (n.) One who, or that which, doubles.

2. (n.) An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.

attenuator audio-frequency tube ballast regulator ballast tube beam-switching tube convertor current regulator damper detector discriminator doubler ear trumpet electronic hearing aid focus tube generator hard-of-hearing aid hearing aid iconoscope inverter limiter local-oscillator tube megaphone mixer tube modulator multiplier multipurpose tube multivibrator oscillator output tube phase inverter picture tube power tube preamp preamplifier pulse generator radio-frequency tube receiving tube rectifier tube regulator repeater speaking trumpet stethoscope transducer transistor hearing aid trigger tube vacuum-tube hearing aid