crystal detector

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noun Radio.

a device for rectifying a modulated radio-frequency signal, consisting of a crystal of germanium, silicon, galena, or the like with a cat whisker contact, permitting a high-frequency current to pass freely in one direction only: one of the two principal components of a crystal set.

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Origin of crystal detector

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby crystal detector

crystal, crystal ball, crystal class, crystal-clear, crystal counter, crystal detector, crystal form, crystal gazing, crystal habit, crystal healing, crystall-

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How to use crystal detector in a sentence

Some of the video was crystal clear, but in other footage the figures were just fuzzy shadows in black and white.
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Sailor Moon Crystal is a more ambitious retelling of multiple Sailor Moon story arcs.
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The Enquirer story was written by Robin Mizrahi, who interviewed Ferrier and had arranged for her to take a lie detector test.
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She agreed to meet with tabloid editors in New York City and take a lie detector test to back up her claims.
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The long axis of the hip-roof crystal is often so shortened that it resembles the envelop crystal of calcium oxalate.
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The soul of music which is embodied in them is imprisoned within wood and crystal, and is no more heard of men.
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Jessie had bought a galena crystal mounted, as that was more satisfactory, the book said.
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You look at a clear perfect rich colour, as it were, through the purest crystal.
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There were silver and gold, as she had said there would be, and crystal which glittered like the gems which the women wore.
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British Dictionary definitions for crystal detector

crystal detector

noun

electronics a demodulator, used esp in microwave circuits and in early radio receivers, consisting of a thin metal wire in point contact with a semiconductor crystal

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