"cat's whisker" meaning in English

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Noun

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): antennilanka (Finnish), chercheur [masculine] (French), kontaktfjäder [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-cat's_whisker-en-noun-PH12VUNi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

Inflected forms

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