coherer
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
Definition of coherer
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.
“Now, this home battery here ready to print is the main steam. The coherer is the valve, always ready to be turned on. The Hertzian wave is the child's hand that turns it.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereōbor. English cohere Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English coherer From cohere + -er.
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