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No. The PNP or NPN of a transistor refers to the doping or impurities introduced to the silicon during manufacturing, and changes the polarity of the supply voltage to each pin. In a vacuum tube, the anode is always positive, the cathode is always negative. The control grid can vary between more negative than the cathode to cut off current flow, up to equal to the potential of the cathode, at which point the tube is saturated, or at full current. There is no 'reverse polarity' tube to correspond with the two types of transistor.

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