quartz oscillator

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   an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal

   Synonymscrystal oscillator

   Broaderoscillator

Questions about quartz oscillator

What does quartz oscillator mean?

quartz oscillator means "an oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal".

What is another word for quartz oscillator?

Close synonyms include crystal oscillator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quartz oscillator a common word?

quartz oscillator 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.