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crystal detector


n.

A rectifying detector used especially in early radio receivers and consisting of a semiconducting crystal in point contact with a fine metal wire.


 
 
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Meaning #1: a detector consisting of a fine wire in contact with a galena crystal; acts as a rectifier

 
 

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