word meaning

[Richard Brekne]

kam544@flash.net wrote:

> List,
>
> Came across a new word for me today watching the National Spelling Bee held
> in Washington, D.C. on ESPN:
>
> heterodyne (het·ero·dyne)
> to combine (as a radio frequency) with a different frequency so that a beat
> is produced

Sheesssh... and I have spent the last 30 years thinking this was a fancy word
meaning "two or more people of the opposite sex sharing a dinner"...

>
>
> Of course, this immediately made me think of all the beat listeners in our
> internet community heterodyning from day to day  :-)
>
> Gobble, gobble,
>
> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway