normal glow discharge meaning

• [Electronics]
  In a glow-discharge tube, the discharge region between the Townsend discharge and the abnormal glow in which current increases sharply, but a constant voltage drop is maintained across the tube.
  

• In these applications the lamps are operated either in'starvation'mode ( to reduce lamp-current noise ) or in normal glow discharge mode; some literature references their use as detectors of radiation up into the optical regime when operated in abnormal glow mode.

• "normal glow discharge" meaning in Chinese: 正常辉光放电
• "normal glow discharge" meaning in Japanese: 正常｛せいじょう｝グロー放電｛ほうでん｝
• "normal glow discharge" meaning in Russian: нормальный тлеющий разряд