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coherer

coherer noun: a detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.

Noun

coherer (plural coherers)

  1. A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.
    • Now, this home battery here ready to print is the main steam. The coherer is the valve, always ready to be turned on. The Hertzian wave is the child's hand that turns it.1902, Rudyard Kipling, Wireless

coherer meaning in Tamil

coherer in Tamil

உணரி

Forms of coherer

pluralcoherers

Origin of coherer

From cohere + -er.

Words formed from coherer

Questions about coherer

What does coherer mean?
Coherer means a detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.
What is coherer in Tamil?
Coherer in Tamil is உணரி. See Coherer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coherer?
Coherer is a noun.
What is the plural of coherer?
The plural of coherer is coherers.

Words near coherer in the dictionary

  1. coherentists
  2. coherentization
  3. coherentizations
  4. coherentized
  5. coherently
  6. coherer
  7. coherers
  8. coheres
  9. cohereth
  10. coherin
  11. cohering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coherer (page history and authors); coherer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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