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Noun: quartz oscillator
  1. An oscillator that produces electrical oscillations at a frequency determined by the physical characteristics of a piezoelectric quartz crystal
    "The watch's accuracy depended on its quartz oscillator";
    - crystal oscillator

Derived forms: quartz oscillators

Type of: oscillator

Encyclopedia: Quartz oscillator