extremely high frequency
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of extremely high frequency
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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The latest airport body scanner machines detect hidden objects with extremely high frequency radiation known as millimeter waves, which bounce off things they strike.
From Reuters • Mar. 24, 2016
In this case the alternating electric field is supplied by light which, being electromagnetic radiation, is actually just an electric field and a magnetic one leapfrogging one another at extremely high frequency.
From Economist • Oct. 17, 2013
One of the things noted was an extremely high frequency of compression fractures, with 45% of the adults having at least one fractured vertebra.
From Time Magazine Archive
The energy aspect of the rays you can best understand as simply a vibration in the ether—an extremely high frequency one.
From Spacehounds of IPC by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)
These, apparently, were generating current at an extremely high frequency.
From The Black Star Passes by Campbell, John Wood
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