crystal set

noun

1. an early, tubeless radio receiver using a crystal detector.

crystal set

noun

1. an early form of radio receiver having a crystal detector to demodulate the radio signals but no amplifier, therefore requiring earphones

Example Sentences

He addressed Gus, who was laying out the hook-up for a crystal set.

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"It may seem like one, but it's really the same kind of circuit you find in a crystal set," Rick explained.

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It is as easy to build a vacuum tube set as a crystal set and only a very little more expensive.

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A quartz crystal set in the centre of the front of the cross probably held the relic.

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Clocker remembered the crystal set his father had bought when radio was still a toy.

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