Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

radionics

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: ra-dion-ics
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several techniques supposed to detect and modulate "life forces" and to provide healing using various electric black boxes.

Uncountable

noun

electronics, especially in radio technology.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Tiller observes that pendulums, dowsing rods and radionics devices all serve to reduce the signal/noise ratio. They help the average individual who is not blessed with the gifts of concentration that are apparently inherent in gifted healers […]"
"But it's also because the Cambridge is British made by Sinclair Radionics Ltd, Europe's largest calculator manufacturer, with all the cost advantages of scale that this entails."

Etymology

From radio- (“pertaining to rays or radiation”) + -onics.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: radio-
Suffix: -onics

Usage

Uncountable

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Questions

What does radionics mean?: Any of several techniques supposed to detect and modulate "life forces" and to provide healing using various electric black boxes.
Where does radionics come from?: From radio- (“pertaining to rays or radiation”) + -onics.

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