Receiver vs Coherer - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between receiver and coherer

is that receiver is a person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something while coherer is (physics) a detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.

receiver

English

Noun

(en noun)

A person who or thing that receives or is intended to receive something.

# A trustee appointed to hold and administer property involved in litigation.

# A person appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.

# A person who accepts stolen goods.

# Any of several electronic devices that receive signals and convert them into sound or vision.

## A telephone handset.

# (label) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.

# (label) A person who attempts to return the ball after it has been served.

# An element of a mechanical or other system or device designed to accept another element.

## (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.

## A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.

## A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

Derived terms

* receivership

Synonyms

* recipient (more formal, usually referring to one who receives such things as an award or medal)

coherer

English

Noun

(wikipedia coherer) (en noun)

(physics) A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers

* Rudyard Kipling, Wireless

Now, this home battery here ready to print is the main steam. The coherer is the valve, always ready to be turned on. The Hertzian wave is the child's hand that turns it.