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radio wave

noun

, Electricity.
  1. an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.


radio wave

noun

  1. an electromagnetic wave of radio frequency
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radio wave

  1. A very low frequency electromagnetic wave (from roughly 30 kilohertz to 100 gigahertz). Radio waves are used for the transmission of radio and television signals; the microwaves used in radar and microwave ovens are also radio waves. Many celestial objects, such as pulsars, emit radio waves.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of radio wave1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

The song reigned over radio waves and the internet for most of 2020, eventually becoming the top Spotify song of the year and the longest-charting radio hit in history.

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Researchers have seen evidence of such high-energy, short-range discharges in pulses of radio waves from thunderstorms detected by ground-based antennas.

Before the case of the missing matter can be closed, though, more of these bright blasts of radio waves need to be examined.

They send out radio waves that bounce back when they hit an object.

Smaller telescopes might need to watch a target for several hours to collect enough radio waves for analysis.

Human thought is an etheric wave of the same essential nature as the radio wave.

Time and again he sent messages on 600, a radio wave length reserved to coast and ship service alone.

Winford turned to the communication board and cut in the universal radio wave.

Even thought, they believe, operates somewhat like a very short radio wave.

There was a simple mechanism in the cartridge that allowed us to release the spores by a radio wave from our ship.

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