CAT'S WHISKER

  

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CAT'S WHISKER

Specialty Definition: CAT'S WHISKER

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Electrical Engineering

A pointed fine springy wire used to make rectifying contact with a semiconductor crystal in early radio receivers. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CAT'S WHISKER

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Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CAT'S WHISKER

Language Translations for "CAT'S WHISKER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

контактна пружина. (various references)

   

Danish

  

cat's whisker (whisker), krystalkontakt (whisker). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zoekdraad (whisker), zoekcontact (whisker). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viiksilanka (whisker), viiksijohdin (whisker), viiksi (mustachioed, wearing a moustache). (various references)

   

French

  

chercheur, moustache de chat. (various references)

   

German

  

Sucherkontakt (whisker), Suchdraht (whisker), Prüfdraht (whisker). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύρμα κατεύθυνσης (whisker), μουστάκι γάτας (whisker), μουστάκι του γάτου (whisker), ακίδα επαφής διόδου (whisker), ατσαλίνα (whisker). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cercatore (searcher, seeker), baffo di gatto (pig, rabbit, rabbler, scraper, scratcher, whisker). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

at'scay iskerwhay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

контактная пружина (cat's-whisker). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pun pogodak. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

patilla de contacto (whisker), bigote de gato (whisker), alambre de presión (whisker). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

spetskontakt (whisker), kontaktfjäder. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CAT'S WHISKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-c-e-h-i-k-r-s-s-t-w"

-3 letters: chastiser, heartsick, rickshaws, switchers, thwackers, whackiest, whitracks.

-4 letters: asterisk, cashiers, chariest, chastise, chirkest, kirsches, kitsches, rachises, restacks, rickshas, rickshaw, rikshaws, sarkiest, scariest, shakiest, shickers, stackers, starches, stickers, swatches, swathers, switcher, switches, swithers, theriacs, thwacker, trishaws, wackiest, waisters, waitress, washiest, wastries, watchers, waterish, whackers, whackier, whickers, whiskers, whitrack.

-5 letters: achiest, actress, aitches, ascites, ashiest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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