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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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Origin of radio wave1

First recorded in 1915–20
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But simulating visual imagery based on radio waves is an unusual approach for robots and autonomous vehicles.

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Their strong magnetic fields can produce beams of radio waves that sweep across the sky like a lighthouse, resulting in metronomic radio pulses with intervals ranging from milliseconds to seconds.

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Long-period radio transients are relatively new to science, and it has been an ongoing mystery how they generate radio waves.

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Depending on its dimensions, the cylinder will ring with radio waves of a specific frequency, just as a bottle will whistle with sound waves of a set pitch if you blow across its mouth.

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This well-known fringe pattern phenomenon is caused by consistent constructive interference but has different characteristics when radio waves propagate around a neutron star.

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