"cat's whisker" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cat's whiskers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cat's whisker (plural cat's whiskers)
  1. (electronics) The wire that touches the crystal in a crystal radio. Categories (topical): Electronics Translations (wire that touches the crystal in a crystal radio): 貓須 (Chinese Mandarin), 猫须 (māoxū) (Chinese Mandarin), antennilanka (Finnish), chercheur [masculine] (French), kontaktfjäder [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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