anticoherer

noun

anticoherer

noun

Etymology From anti- + coherer.

1

Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications, Telegraphy Historical 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.

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