suppressor grid
Electronics
noun
(In a thermionic valve or vacuum tube, especially a pentode) a coarse grid situated between electrodes, typically the screen grid and the anode, so as to repel secondary electrons emitted by the anode.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Electronics.
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