spark-gap generator

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spark-gap generator [′spärk ¦gap ‚jen·ə‚rād·ər]

(electricity)

A high-frequency generator in which a capacitor is repeatedly charged to a high voltage and allowed to discharge through a spark gap into an oscillatory circuit, generating successive trains of damped high-frequency oscillations.

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