ALL meanings of superheterodyne
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S s - adjective superheterodyne denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection. 1
- noun superheterodyne a superheterodyne receiver. 1
- noun superheterodyne radio, applied to reception in which oscillations of slightly different frequency are imposed on the received oscillations, producing beats of a frequency above audio- frequency which are easily amplified 0
- adjective superheterodyne designating or of a form of radio reception in which part of the amplification prior to demodulation is carried out at an intermediate supersonic frequency produced by beating the frequency of the received carrier waves with that of locally generated oscillations 0
- noun superheterodyne a radio set for this method of reception 0