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Definition of Medium wave
1. Noun. A radio wave with a wavelength between 100 and 1000 meters (a frequency between 300 kilohertz and 3000 kilohertz).
Generic synonyms: Radio Emission, Radio Radiation, Radio Wave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medium Wave
Literary usage of Medium wave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Voice of America: Management Actions Needed to Adjust to a Changing Environment (1993)
"medium wave broadcasting, known as AM in the United States, ... The medium wave
band tends to be congested, and the frequencies are generally reserved for ..."
2. Pakistan: A Country Study edited by Peter R. Blood (1996)
"The PBC operates twenty-four medium-wave and three short-wave transmitters for
its domestic programs and two medium-wave and eight short-wave transmitters ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... the effect that would be caused by the same force if the medium wave.
were undivided, and on the latter supposition (being also localized at a point) it ..."
4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"495 the luminous point being isotropic, it is obvious that the is supposed to be
at 0, and the medium wave-front, as A BO... 0, is spherical. as briefly ..."
5. The Future of Remote Sensing from Space: Civilian Satellite Systems and by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Other spectral bands would image the Earth in visible, short-, and medium-wave
infrared. Resolutions would range from 2.5 meters in the panchromatic band to ..."