crystal set


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

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How to use crystal set in a sentence

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

    Radio Boys Loyalty | Wayne Whipple
  • "It may seem like one, but it's really the same kind of circuit you find in a crystal set," Rick explained.

    The Blue Ghost Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
  • It is as easy to build a vacuum tube set as a crystal set and only a very little more expensive.

    Radio Boys Loyalty | Wayne Whipple
  • A quartz crystal set in the centre of the front of the cross probably held the relic.

    The Glories of Ireland | Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox
  • Clocker remembered the crystal set his father had bought when radio was still a toy.

    At the Post | Horace Leonard Gold

British Dictionary definitions for crystal set

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

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