Usually means: Radio receiver using minimal components.
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  1. crystal set: Merriam-Webster
  2. crystal set: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crystal set: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crystal set: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crystal set: Vocabulary.com
  6. crystal set: Wiktionary
  7. crystal set: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. crystal set: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. crystal set: Dictionary.com
  10. Crystal set, The Crystal Set: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. crystal set: Rhymezone
  12. crystal set: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (crystal set)

noun:  (electronics) An early radio receiver, having no electrical power supply except the radio waves themselves; it used a crystal of lead or cadmium sulphide and a wire (the cat's whisker) touching the crystal's surface.

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