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Radio   /rˈeɪdiˌoʊ/   Listen
Radio

noun
1.
Medium for communication.  Synonyms: radiocommunication, wireless.
2.
An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals.  Synonyms: radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner, wireless.
3.
A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves.  Synonym: wireless.



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"Radio" Quotes from Famous Books



... carpeted halls were musty and still as we climbed, except for the unheeded squeaking of a radio someone had forgotten to turn off. You could always tell when a radio was being listened to, for when disregarded it sulkily gave off painfully listless noises ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... and the pistollike vibratool Sachiko carried on her belt, they pounded and pried one open, to find dessicated piles of what had been vegetables, and leathery chunks of meat. Samples of that stuff, rocketed up to the ship, would give a reliable estimate, by radio-carbon dating, of how long ago this building had been occupied. The refrigeration unit, radically different from anything their own culture had produced, had been electrically powered. Sachiko and Penrose, poking into it, found the switches still on; the ...
— Omnilingual • H. Beam Piper

... "It's done by radio from ship to ship. Look! They are forcing us to head more to port. That gives them the advantage of ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett



Words linked to "Radio" :   heterodyne receiver, superhet, demodulator, communicate, communication system, detector, broadcasting, receiving system, receiver, crystal set, amplifier, intercommunicate, combining form, wireless telegraphy, raise, superheterodyne receiver, wireless telegraph, radiant energy



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