Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coherer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English

Syllables: co-her-er
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.

Example Sentences

"Now, this home battery here ready to print is the main steam. The coherer is the valve, always ready to be turned on. The Hertzian wave is the child's hand that turns it."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereōbor. English cohere Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English coherer From cohere + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cohere

Inflected Forms

coherers (plural)

Derived Forms

anticoherer autocoherer

Questions

What does coherer mean?: A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.
Where does coherer come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereōbor. English cohere Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English coherer From cohere + -er.

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