anticoherer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this device increase its resistance several times.

Word forms

anticoherer anticoherers

Etymology

From anti- + coherer.

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