Definition of Syntonic

1. a. Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another.

Definition of Syntonic

1. Adjective. (psychology) In harmony or synergy with one's personality and milieu. ¹

2. Adjective. (physics of oscillating systems) Having the same frequency. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Syntonic

1. syntony [adj] - See also: syntony

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syntonic

synthetism
synthetize
synthetized
synthetizes
synthetizing
syntheton
synthon
synthone
synthones
synthons
synthpop
synthpops
synths
synthy
syntomy
syntonic (current term)
syntonies
syntonin
syntonins
syntonization
syntonize
syntony
syntopical
syntopicon
syntroph
syntrophic
syntrophin
syntrophins
syntrophs
syntrophy

Literary usage of Syntonic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice by Archie Frederick Collins (1905)
"In Marconi's syntonic wireless telegraph system, shown diagrammatically in Fig. 296, the inventor has designed an oscillator in which high-frequency, ..."

2. Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice by Archie Frederick Collins (1905)
"In Marconi's syntonic wireless telegraph system, shown diagrammatically in Fig. 296, the inventor has designed an oscillator in which high-frequency, ..."

3. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming (1908)
"Slaby-Arco Arrangements for Duplex syntonic Telegraphy. The dotted lines in the diagrams denote the amplitude of the potential oscillations in the antenna: ..."

4. Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice by Archie Frederick Collins (1905)
"MARCONI syntonic SYSTEM (SECOND FORM).—In his second form of syntonic apparatus Marconi utilized an open-circuit oscillator formed of the regulation aerial ..."

5. Wireless Telegraphy: A Popular Exposition by George William von Tunzelmann (1902)
"THE MARCONI syntonic ... If my readers have studied the contents of Chapter IV., they will be aware that a syntonic radiator must necessarily be one which ..."

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