A fine adjustable wire in a crystal radio receiver.
（晶体无线电收音机中的）触须，晶须
Example sentencesExamples
It is made from a coil of wire, a cardboard roll, has an aerial, a crystal (germanium diode), an earplug and a piece of wire called a cat's whisker.
It took two burly labourers to manhandle the huge walnut and Bakelite tuner onto the Lilo, but within hours the valves had warmed up, and the cat's whisker proved remarkably sensitive.
For entertainment at home we sang around the piano or from 1925 we listened to our wireless - the cat's whiskers kind of early radio.
Definition of cat's whisker in US English:
cat's whisker
noun
A fine adjustable wire in a crystal radio receiver.
（晶体无线电收音机中的）触须，晶须
Example sentencesExamples
For entertainment at home we sang around the piano or from 1925 we listened to our wireless - the cat's whiskers kind of early radio.
It took two burly labourers to manhandle the huge walnut and Bakelite tuner onto the Lilo, but within hours the valves had warmed up, and the cat's whisker proved remarkably sensitive.
It is made from a coil of wire, a cardboard roll, has an aerial, a crystal (germanium diode), an earplug and a piece of wire called a cat's whisker.