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Originally Posted by rambo1152
The problem is that Super in English usually implies something rather exceptional...
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*Super-* is from Latin, where it just means 'above' or 'beyond'. Hence supernatural, for example, superabundant, super-heavyweight, etc.
Hence it isn't clear why it is used in the sense of a Superhet(erodyne), as the mixing of the two frequencies, one incoming and one locally generated, isn't clearly 'beyond' anything...