an electrical component formerly used to detect radio waves, consisting of a tube containing loosely packed metal particles. The waves caused the particles to cohere, thereby changing the current through the circuit
coherer in American English
(kouˈhɪərər, -ˈher-)
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
Word origin
[1890–95; cohere + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: historicism, honky-tonk, neoclassicism, plein-air, pogey-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'coherer' in a sentence
coherer
The possibility of characterization of aluminium powders using a horizontal coherer has been considered.
Nikolić Pantelija M., Đurić S., Radulović K., Vasiljević-Radović D., Nikolić M.V.,Ristić Momčilo M. 2002, 'Characterisation of dispersive systems using a coherer', Science of Sinteringhttp://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-820X/2002/0350-820X0201101N.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It was also shown that the average dimension of powders of unknown size could be determined using the coherer.
Nikolić Pantelija M., Đurić S., Radulović K., Vasiljević-Radović D., Nikolić M.V.,Ristić Momčilo M. 2002, 'Characterisation of dispersive systems using a coherer', Science of Sinteringhttp://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-820X/2002/0350-820X0201101N.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)