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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as syntonism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physics) State of being adjusted to a certain wave length; agreement or tuning between the time period of an apparatus emitting electric oscillations and that of a receiving apparatus, esp. in wireless telegraphy.

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  • noun electronics A condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency
  • noun A syntonic state.

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Examples

  • The town of Assisi will be raised as a "Landmark of Universal Reference" for all men of goodwill [that's great, but can we call it something less lame than "Landmark of Universal Reference"?], overcoming in this way any distinction of Culture and Belief in syntony with the Fundamental Principles of every True Religion.

    The Dragon's Mailbag 2008

  • The town of Assisi will be raised as a "Landmark of Universal Reference" for all men of goodwill [that's great, but can we call it something less lame than "Landmark of Universal Reference"?], overcoming in this way any distinction of Culture and Belief in syntony with the Fundamental Principles of every True Religion.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • The pedophile's ego-syntony rests on his alloplastic defenses.

    The Roots of Pedophilia 2006

  • Marconi and several other workers in the field of wireless telegraphy are now busy experimenting on a system of attunement, or syntony, by which it will be possible to so adjust the sending instruments that none but the receiver for whom the message is meant can receive it.

    Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910

  • What syntony, to reappear on this the first true fog of the year.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • And as for syntony, what is a fifty-cent word like that doing in a message like this?]

    The Dragon's Mailbag 2008

  • And as for syntony, what is a fifty-cent word like that doing in a message like this?]

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

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