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PRONUNCIATION OF COHERER

coherer  [kəʊˈhɪərə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COHERER

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determiner
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Coherer is a noun.
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WHAT DOES COHERER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Coherer

The coherer is a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the first radio receivers during the wireless telegraphy era at the beginning of the 20th century. Invented around 1884 by Italian physicist, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, it consists of a tube or capsule containing two electrodes spaced a small distance apart, with metal filings in the space between them. When a radio frequency signal is applied to the device, the initial high resistance of the filings reduces, allowing an electric current to flow through it. The coherer was a key enabling technology for radio, and was the first device used to detect radio signals in practical spark gap transmitter wireless telegraphy. Beginning around 1890, other research was performed by Oliver Lodge, Alexander Popov, Edouard Branly, and Guglielmo Marconi used it in the first historic experiments in radio communication, and it became the basis for radio reception, and remained in widespread use until about 1910. It was superseded by more sensitive electrolytic and crystal detectors and became obsolete, although in the 1950s a coherer was briefly used in at least one radio-controlled toy.

Definition of coherer in the English dictionary

The definition of coherer in the dictionary is an electrical component formerly used to detect radio waves, consisting of a tube containing loosely packed metal particles. The waves caused the particles to cohere, thereby changing the current through the circuit.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COHERER


adherer
ədˈhɪərə
admirer
ədˈmaɪərə
Beira
ˈbaɪərə
chimera
kaɪˈmɪərə
clearer
ˈklɪərə
decoherer
ˌdiːkəʊˈhɪərə
era
ˈɪərə
Halmahera
ˌhælməˈhɪərə
hearer
ˈhɪərə
Hera
ˈhɪərə
inquirer
ɪnˈkwaɪərə
lempira
lɛmˈpɪərə
lira
ˈlɪərə
Lyra
ˈlaɪərə
Madeira
məˈdɪərə
Pera
ˈpɪərə
retirer
rɪˈtaɪərə
sera
ˈsɪərə
shearer
ˈʃɪərə
Thera
ˈθɪərə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COHERER

cohabitor
cohead
coheir
coheiress
Cohen
cohere
coherence
coherency
coherent
coherently
coheritor
cohesibility
cohesible
cohesion
cohesionless soil
cohesive
cohesive soil
cohesively
cohesiveness
cohibit

WORDS THAT END LIKE COHERER

blatherer
bletherer
butcherer
cipherer
cosherer
decipherer
ditherer
encipherer
Federer
furtherer
gatherer
God-botherer
hunter-gatherer
ingatherer
latherer
murtherer
smotherer
treacherer
weatherer
witherer
woolgatherer

Synonyms and antonyms of coherer in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «coherer» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

检波
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cohesor
570 millions of speakers

English

coherer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कोहिरर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

coherer
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

когерер
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coherer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অটলভাবে অনুগামী ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coherer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Coherer
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

coherer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コヒーラ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

coherer
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Coherer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cái thám ba
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

coherer
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोफरर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dalga reseptörü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coherer
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

koherer
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

когерер
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coherer
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνοχέας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koherer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

coherer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

coherer
5 millions of speakers

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COHERER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about coherer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COHERER»

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Popular Mechanics
How. to. Make. a. Wireless. Telegraph. Set. —. Part. VI. By ARTHUR MOORE Construction of a Coherer and a Detector (To be continued.) Wood- Working for Beginners By IRA S. Either the coherer or a detector may be used in the receiving " ...
2
Boys' Life
The chief feature of the receiving station (Fig. 2) of a wireless telegraph outfit is the coherer. This simple piece of apparatus is the thing which detects the presence of the electrical waves transmitted through space and received by the aerials.
3
Modern Communications Receiver Design and Technology
Iron or nickel silver particles Glass envelope Silver electrodes Figure 2.1 The coherer was invented by Edouard Branly in 1891. 2.3 The Decoherer (Practical Coherer/Decoherer Receivers) The decoherer was nothing more than an electrical ...
Cornell Drentea, 2010
4
Wireless: From Marconi's Black-box to the Audion
As was noted in chapter 1, Lodge also constructed a spring point-contact detector , which he called a coherer. Lodge therefore had two new detectors: his coherer and Branly's tube. (Initially, Lodge called only his single-point detector a coherer  ...
Sungook Hong, 2001
5
The Worldwide History of Telecommunications
In 1891 he rediscovered the cohesion effect on small particles under the influence of electricity.3 Based on this effect he constructed a device, later called a coherer, for detecting electromagnetic waves, consisting basically of a tube filled with ...
Anton A. Huurdeman, 2003
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Array and Phased Array Antenna Basics
He constructed an electrical circuit that contained an arrow-shaped zinc plate, a battery, a coherer and a bell [4]. The circuit might have looked like the one shown in figure 2.12a.12 I a b c I a b c Fig. 2.12 Marconi's lightning detecting apparatus.
Hubregt J. Visser, 2006
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Atentop 01 2003
A relatively simple method for automatic tapping-back had been suggested much earlier by Lodge in conjunction with his original metal spherical knob coherer. Lodge had positioned the electric bell he used to announce the detection of a ...
Publisher Igor Grigorov
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Coherer
The coherer was a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consisting of a capsule of metal filings in the space between two electrodes.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2009
9
The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science: The Very Best ...
or the beeper goes off when you temporarily short circuit the two ends of the coherer. Things to Try If you have a single-spark piezoelectric igniter, why not try that? It probably won't work quite as well, but it does offer the opportunity to see how ...
Neil A. Downie, 2012
10
The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits
Branly's coherer. Relay/ Paper Tape Inker (Assumed to have high RF impedance ) FIGURE 1.2. Typical receiver with coherer. packed, perhaps slightly oxidized, metallic powder whose resistance turned out to have interesting hysteretic ...
Thomas H. Lee, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COHERER»

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The light and the sea
It was while studying the polarisation of microwaves through living tissue that JC Bose was compelled to invent his wireless coherer in the ... «Hindu Business Line, Mar 15»
2
ZS90SARL makes its debut on January 1, 2015
... technician in the city who through experimentation to improve the performance of the telephone mouth piece detected its coherer properties. «Southgate Amateur Radio Club, Dec 14»
3
Today in Media History: In the late 1890s Marconi helped invent …
He set up a specially designed wireless receiver in Newfoundland, Canada, using a coherer (a glass tube filled with iron filings) to conduct ... «Poynter.org, Dec 14»
4
Who's Left?
Not only that, but I learned what a SWARD and a COHERER are today, and you know what? It didn't hurt a bit. Clue of the Day goes to ... «New York Times, Oct 13»
5
The Weird and Wonderful World of Retro-Death-Telegraphy
Exploration of the pre-cursors of digital technologies uncovered devices such as the coherer, a primitive radio receiver made with two ... «Huffington Post Canada, Jun 13»
6
The Memristor's Fundamental Secrets Revealed
“Our arXiv paper talks about the coherer, which comprises an imperfect metal-metal contact in embodiments such as a point contact between ... «IEEE Spectrum, Jun 13»
7
The crescograph and the scifi writing genius who invented it
He invented a version of the “coherer,” a detecting device for radio waves. He demonstrated it in 1895, by sending out radio waves to a device ... «io9, Mar 13»
8
Fanatical Devotion: Where Have All the Passionate Artists Gone?
“He turned from the Virgin to the Dynamo as though he were a Branly coherer. On one side, at the Louvre and at Chartres, as he knew by the record of work ... «Big Think, Jan 11»
9
Gas Mantles and Amateur Radio
The transmitter was spark, using a Ford ignition coil, and the receiver used a coherer, which they said could be purchased from Gamages for ... «Southgate Amateur Radio Club, Nov 10»
10
Nikola Tesla: Father of Unmanned Vehicle Technology
Tesla used a “sensitive device” called a coherer, which consisted of a metal oxide powder that was subjected to a magnetic field. A thin metal ... «Assembly Magazine, Apr 10»

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