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  2. Magic eye tube - Wikipedia

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    The magic eye (also called a cat's eye, or tuning eye in North America) is a specific type of such a tube with a circular display similar to the EM34 illustrated. Its first broad application was as a tuning indicator in radio receivers , to give an indication of the relative strength of the received radio signal, to show when a radio station ...

  3. Cathode-ray tube - Wikipedia

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    A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. [2] The images may represent electrical waveforms on an oscilloscope , a frame of video on an analog television set (TV), digital raster graphics on a computer monitor , or ...

  4. Cat's eye - Wikipedia

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    Cat eye glasses, a style of horn-rimmed glasses designed for women; Cat's eye (toy), a kind of toy marble; Cat's Eye (cocktail), a gin-based cocktail; Cat's eye (road), a type of road marker using retroreflectors; Cat eye tube, an electron tube used as a visual indicator

  5. Cat's Eye (1985 film) - Wikipedia

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    Cat's Eye (also known as Stephen King's Cat's Eye) is a 1985 American anthology horror thriller film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King. It comprises three stories: "Quitters, Inc.", "The Ledge", and "General". The first two are adaptations of short stories in King's 1978 Night Shift collection, and the third is unique to the ...

  6. What are cat eyes? TSA officers detect spike in these self ...

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    Cat eyes are similar to brass knuckles but in the shape of a cat face, with sharp and pointy ears that act like small daggers to stab or gouge. People slip their fingers through the spaces of the ...

  7. Cat's eye (road) - Wikipedia

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    Double-ended cat's eye is Shaw's original design and marks road centre-line. The inventor of cat's eyes was Percy Shaw of Boothtown, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.When the tram-lines were removed in the nearby suburb of Ambler Thorn, he realised that he had been using the polished steel rails to navigate at night. [3]

  8. 'Cat eyes' banned: TSA urges passengers to keep weapons ... - AOL

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    "Cat eyes" according to TSA, are weapons designed to look like cats that would fall in a similar category as brass knuckles. 'Cat eyes' banned: TSA urges passengers to keep weapons out of carry ...

  9. Chatoyancy - Wikipedia

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    Tiger's eye Tiger's eye. In gemology, chatoyancy (/ ʃ ə ˈ t ɔɪ. ən s i / shə-TOY-ən-see), also called chatoyance or the cat's eye effect, [1] is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gemstones, woods, and carbon fiber. Coined from the French œil de chat, meaning 'cat's eye'. The chatoyant effect is typically characterized by ...