Definitions for coherer

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coherer co·her·er

Spelling: [koh-heer-er, -her-]

IPA: /koʊˈhɪər ər, -ˈhɛr-/

Coherer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in coherer (ceehorr).

Definitions for coherer

noun

1. a person or thing that coheres.
2. Radio. a device usually used in detecting radio waves, as a tube filled with a conducting substance in granular form, whose electrical resistance increases when struck by radio waves.

Origin of coherer

First recorded in 1890-95; cohere + -er¹

Examples for coherer

The sensitive part of the Marconi receiving apparatus is the coherer.

One wire from the coherer is connected to the aerial and the other to the ground.

Then, suddenly, came the sharp click of the “tapper” as it struck the “coherer.”

In all likelihood, the coherer is acted upon in the same way.

The coherer may be said to resemble an engine-driver, and the “relay” an engine.

He knocked on the coherer, then put in a new one: not a sign.

In Marconi's first instruments he used a device called the "coherer."

Suddenly there sounded the sharp click of the tapper as it struck the coherer.

The method of using the coherer to detect electric pulses is not due, however, to Marconi.

In this wire—as a part of its circuit—is placed the coherer.