decoherev.
/diːkəʊˈhɪə/ transitive. To restore (a coherer) to its normal condition of sensitiveness. Also absol., and intransitive for passive. (Disused.)
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1902 How to make Useful Things 5/1 The purpose of the tapper is to decohere the filings after they are affected by the etheric waves.
1902 How to make Useful Things 6/1 The tapper keeps busily at work decohering in response to the continuously closing circuit caused by the waves.
1923 E. W. Marchant Radio Telegr. iv. 38 By using mercury, Lodge and others made coherers which decohered without tapping.
1924 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms 58/2 A coherer is said to ‘decohere’ when it resumes its normal feebly conducting state on tapping or disturbance, after it has been made conducting by electrical oscillations, etc.
Derivatives
decoˈherence n.
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1902 Young Engineer 1 371/2 As the coherer is continuously rotating, decoherence follows immediately on coherence.
1903 Sci. Abstr. B. 6 128 The self-induction of the telephone may have been sufficient to cause the decoherence.
decoˈhesion n.
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1902 Science 21 Mar. 466 A short description of the single contact coherer used by him and an explanation of the so-called decohesion.
decoˈherer n. a device for bringing a coherer back to its normal condition.
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1899 G. Marconi in Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 28 275 This coherer forms part of a circuit..which circuit works a trembler or decoherer and a recording instrument.
1913 Work 4 Oct. 7/2 The decoherer circuit.
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