magic eye



magic eye

A cathode-ray tube found on some radios (particularly in the mid-20th century) that displayed a visual cue to aid the tuning of the radio. Back in my day, we needed to use a magic eye to tune our radios!
See also: eye, magic

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Aditya-Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali, Indonesian
Tresha-English (Rare)
HiljaHEEL-yahFinnish
AmalricAM-əl-rik (English), ə-MAL-rik (English)Ancient Germanic
Modeste-French
Gotam-Indian, Hindi (Rare)