crystal diode
Electronics (now chiefly historical )
noun
A semiconductor diode, especially one comprising a semiconductor crystal with which a thin metal wire is in point contact; also called crystal rectifier.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Popular Science Monthly.
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