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  • verb Present participle of heterodyne.

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Examples

  • It is made worse by the further heterodyning as the spaceship's negative force interacts with the terraformer's positive pull.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Makeshift Rocket - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008

  • It was not a whining, nor a rustling of magnetic field disturbance, nor crackling, nor howling of heterodyning, mutually interfering waves; nor was it a distorted impulse, nor even a distorted radiating effect, which appeared only rarely in hypercom traffic but which for unexplained reasons broadcast the telecom signal in all directions except the one into which it was supposed to be sent.

    Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York 2010

  • Instead of carrying voice or television impulses, the heterodyning frequency produces nodes of energy at regular intervals throughout the enormous length of the tube -- magnetic fields of unbelievable power which draw the projectile-like car along within the tube with ever-increasing velocity.

    "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 1 Johnny Pez 2009

  • The radio processes the signal: Most modern radios also include a heterodyning stage that converts the radio-frequency signal to a fixed intermediate frequency that subsequent circuits are optimized to handle.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • It produces a great number of individual frequencies separated in definite multiples between which there are heterodyning effects which result in an almost infinite number of beat notes to cover any result desired.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • "Merely a new heterodyning frequency on the wave producing the barrier," he explained quite unintelligibly.

    "The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009

  • It produces a great number of individual frequencies separated in definite multiples between which there are heterodyning effects which result in an almost infinite number of beat notes to cover any result desired.

    "High-Frequency War" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009

  • It is made worse by the further heterodyning as the spaceship's negative force interacts with the terraformer's positive pull.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • At reassembly, it superheterodynes with the main signal; the heterodyning produces a set of parasitic sound frequencies.

    The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000

  • Van Rijn equalized positive and negative forces in a heterodyning interplay which, in effect, welded him fast.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

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