English
Alternative forms
Noun
crystal set (plural crystal sets)
- 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.
Translations
an early kind of radio receiver
- Catalan: ràdio de galena f
- Danish: krystalapparat n, krystalmodtager c
- Dutch: kristalontvanger (nl)
- French: récepteur à cristal m, poste à galène m, poste de radio à cristal m
- German: Detektorempfänger m, Detektorradio n
- Italian: radio a galena f
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: krystallapparat n, krystallmottaker m
- Nynorsk: krystallapparat n, krystallmottakar m
- Portuguese: rádio de galena m
- Russian: дете́кторный приёмник m (detéktornyj prijómnik)
- Spanish: radio a galena f
- Swedish: kristallapparat c, kristallmottagare (sv) c
- Volapük: kristadaparat
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