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It is an electrical oscillator which uses two transistors or vacuum tubes and a LC circuit.

The two transistors are connected as a two stage amplifier, both stages are inverting. the output of the second is coupled to the input of the first by a tuned circuit. Provided the amplifiers have enough gain, the circuit will oscillate, because the two amplifiers each give 180 degree phase shift, so the output is in phase iwth the input, so the oscillations build, until they are limited in amplitude by gain compression.

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