Definitions for coherers

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coherers co·her·er

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

IPA: /koʊˈhɪər ər, -ˈhɛr-/

Coherers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in coherers (ceehorrs).

Definitions for coherers

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 coherers

First recorded in 1890-95; cohere + -er¹

Examples for coherers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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