beat-frequency oscillator
Electronics
noun
1A device which combines the outputs of two radio frequency oscillators (one of fixed, and one of variable frequency), to give an output whose frequency equals the difference between the original frequencies.
2= beat oscillator.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Keith Henney (b. 1896).
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