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Heterodyne   /hˈɛtərədˌaɪn/   Listen
Heterodyne

verb
1.
Combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two.



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... they had rigged out a powerful electrono plant operating from atomic energy. And a few moments later the little portable receiver, the Intelligence Boss used to pick up the enemy messages, began to emit such ear-splitting squeals and howls that he shut it off. Our heterodyne or "radio-scrambling" broadcast had gone into operation, emitting impulses of constantly varying wave-length over the full broadcast range and heterodyning the ...
— The Airlords of Han • Philip Francis Nowlan


Words linked to "Heterodyne" :   beat, compound, electronics, combine


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