crystal pickup

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   a cartridge in which an output voltage is produced by the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal

   Broadercartridge

   Partscrystal

Questions about crystal pickup

What does crystal pickup mean?

crystal pickup means "a cartridge in which an output voltage is produced by the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal".

Is crystal pickup a common word?

crystal pickup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.