Meanings
adjectivesuperheterodyne (not comparable)
- not comparablebusinessPertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.First known use 20th c.
Approaching Louisville, the Tin Hind was almost swallowed up in the Great Ohio Flood (which preoccupied the radio news for days; I hung over my superheterodyne set) and he was unable to visit a new correspondent of Lovecraft's there.
1937, Fritz Leiber, The Terror from the Depths
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Italic*super
- Latinsuper
- Latinsuper-
- Englishsuper-
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sḿ̥teros
- Proto-Hellenic*hə́teros
- Ancient Greekἕτερος (héteros)
- Englishhetero-
- Englishheterodyne
- Englishsuperheterodyne
From super- + heterodyne.
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superheterodyne. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superheterodyne
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Chicago
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