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continuous waves

plural noun

  1. CWradio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude

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Another benefit of this microwave weapon is that it can deal with continuous waves of targets without any need to reload.

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Besides the expectation of more binary mergers, the improvement in sensitivity and longer run time will also allow a deeper search for continuous waves.

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This was about dancing of surging urgency, fleet running and staggered entrances onto the stage, creating the impression of continuous waves of movement.

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Emerging from orderly quantum clouds, the gravitons would form continuous waves with a frequency set by the axion’s mass.

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It was, they said, the effect of continuous waves causing the ocean floor to vibrate.

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