long wave


noun
  1. Electricity. an electromagnetic wave over 60 meters in length.

  2. Geology. L wave.

Origin of long wave

1
First recorded in 1830–40

Other words from long wave

  • long-wave, adjective

Words Nearby long wave

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How to use long wave in a sentence

  • It stopped there; and a long wave broke with a roar, and rushed up in gleaming foam almost to their feet.

  • But the singing continued; others joined in it, and soon it swelled to a long wave of song and flowed over that human sea.

British Dictionary definitions for long wave

long wave

noun
    • a radio wave with a wavelength greater than 1000 metres

    • (as modifier): a long-wave broadcast

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