v. Electr. [f. SYNTONIC a.2 + -IZE.] trans. To make syntonic; to ‘tune’ or adjust to the same or corresponding frequencies, as a transmitter and receiver in wireless telegraphy. Hence Syntonized, -izing ppl. adjs.; also Syntonization, the action of syntonizing; Syntonizer, an apparatus for syntonizing.
1892. Lodge, Mod. Views Electr., xvi. 355. Vacuum tubes … attached to an ordinary syntonized receiver.
1898. Edin. Rev., Oct., 307. The Marconi apparatus seems to lend itself imperfectly to the ‘sharp syntonisation.’
1898. Engineering Mag., XVI, 142/1. Lodge’s System of Syntonized Wireless Telegraphy.
1900. S. R. Bottone, Wireless Telegr., iv. 107. These [pegs] serve as supports for the rods which are used as ‘wings’ or syntonizers.
1901. Munsey’s Mag., June, 365/1. A system … that would be able to syntonize or select its despatches.
