syntonic
Americanadjective
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Electricity. adjusted to oscillations of the same or a particular frequency.
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Psychiatry. of or denoting a personality characterized by normal emotional responsiveness to the environment.
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Origin of syntonic
1890–95; < Greek sýnton ( os ) attuned to, literally, stretched together (verbid of synteínein to harmonize, equivalent to syn- syn- + ton- (derivative of teínein to stretch; see tone) + -os adj. suffix) + -ic
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After the brief performance the group tried, admirably, to explain the music theory behind Mr. Haas’s piece while being amusingly self-aware about absurd microtonal descriptions like “D flat syntonic sharp undecimal sharp.”
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017
Personality disorders are ego syntonic: individuals believe that the drama, self-absorption and other traits that characterize their condition are reasonable responses to the way the world is treating them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Braun's syntonic system, the receiver and transmitter of which have been described, is also in one form a non-earthed system.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
Both the above-described syntonic systems of Mr. Marconi and Dr. Slaby are "earthed" systems, but arrangements for syntonic telegraphy have been devised by Sir Oliver Lodge and Professor Braun which are "non-earthed."
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose
Wireless telegraphy, 137; advance of, 145; receiver, 140, 141; syntonic, 143; transmitter, 138, 139.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald
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