variable-frequency oscillator

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Electronics

• An oscillator whose frequency can be adjusted. This adjustment may occur in discrete steps, or through a continuous range. This contrasts with a fixed-frequency oscillator, whose frequency cannot be varied. Its abbreviation is VFO.
• acronymVFO

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