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Definition of Radio wave

1. Noun. An electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m.

Definition of Radio wave

1. Noun. (physics) electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength between about .5 centimeters and 30,000 meters; used for the broadcasting of radio and television signals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Radio wave

1. Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths of 300 millimetres or longer (even up to several kilometres). Radiation of this type is used to broadcast radio and television signals, and has frequencies up to thousands of megahertz (or one gigahertz). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radio Wave

Literary usage of Radio wave

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Radio Phone Receiving: A Practical Book for Everybody by Erich Hausmann, Alfred Norton Goldsmith, Louis Alan Hazeltine, John V. L. Hogan, John Harold Morecroft, Frank Emanuel Canavaciol, Robert D. Gibson, Paul C. Hoernel (1922)
"The Modulation and Control of the radio wave. ... that the ear cannot possibly hear the currents produced by a steady radio wave but only the changes in ..."

2. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"An apparatus designed to determine the direction from which a radio wave is ... It is found that a radio wave will set up the greatest noise when the axis ..."

3. Radio-telephony for Everyone: The Wireless: how to Construct and Maintain by Laurence Marsham Cockaday (1922)
"... a radio wave, and we wish to tune a receiving antenna so that the radio wave will induce FIG. 31. A shows two coils in inductive relation, the magnetic ..."

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