Meaning

1 senses
  1. An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.

    Detektorempfänger, Detektorradio

    дете́кторный приёмникdetéktornyj prijómnik

    an early radio receiver using a crystal detector

Translations

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an early kind of radio receiver:
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