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autodyne

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au⋅to⋅dyne

  [aw-tuh-dahyn]
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–noun Electronics.
a type of heterodyne circuit containing a vacuum tube or transistor that acts simultaneously as a detector and oscillator.
Origin:
1915–20; auto- 1 + dyne
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au·to·dyne   (ô'tə-dīn')   
n.  A heterodyne radio device in which one tube serves simultaneously as oscillator and detector.

[auto- + (hetero)dyne.]
au'to·dyne' adj.
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