heterodyne
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the two
Types & categories
- combine hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations
Related & opposite
- electronics domain topic
- beat pertains to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | combine |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | electronics |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | beat |