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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rectifying detector used especially in early radio receivers and consisting of a semiconducting crystal in point contact with a fine metal wire.
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- noun a detector consisting of a fine wire in contact with a galena crystal; acts as a rectifier
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