Definition of "superheterodyne"

superheterodyne

/suːpəˈhɛt(ə)ɹədʌɪn/

adjective
not comparable
1. (electronics) Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.
  Quotations
  Approaching Louisville, the Tin Hind was almost swallowed up in the Great Ohio Flood (which preoccupied the radio news for days; I hung over my superheterodyne set) and he was unable to visit a new correspondent of Lovecraft's there.
  1937, Fritz Leiber, The Terror from the Depths
noun
plural superheterodynes
1. A receiver of this kind.