quenched spark
Electricity (now chiefly historical )
noun
A spark in a radio transmitter that is extinguished mechanically soon after it begins.
Origin
Early 20th century.
- radio pirate
- radio play
- radioprotectant
- radioprotection
- radioprotective
- radioprotector
- radio pulse
- radiopure
- radiopurity
- radio-quiet
- radio-quietness
- radio radar
- radio range
- radioreceptor
- radio recorder
- radioresistance
- radioresistant
- radioscan
- radioscanning
- radioscope
- radioscopic
- radioscopy
- radiosensitive
- radiosensitiveness
- radiosensitivity