VFD
Noun
Meaning
(electronics) Initialism of vacuum fluorescent display.
(electronics) Initialism of variable-frequency drive.
(US) Initialism of volunteer fire department.
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A modern indicator device, the vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) is also a sort of cathode ray tube.
Display output Calculators usually have liquid-crystal displays (LCD) as output in place of historical light-emitting diode (LED) displays and vacuum fluorescent displays (VFD); details are provided in the section Technical improvements.
Prof Sir George William Gray developed LCD displays at Hull, when working for the MoD ( RRE ) in Malvern, developing it with the substance cyano-biphenyl in 1973; the VFD (a similar purpose) was invented in Japan in 1967.
Shown accepting the check from Kirt Sloan, manager of the Woodsfield Riesbeck’s Food Market, is Tim Buckalew, captain, Woodsfield VFD.
Holyoke VFD was credited with fourth place in the individual coupling and wet test events in the tournament.
• Clarington VFD, replace lighting in fire station - $11,400.