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With this development comes the use of radio waves in different ways using different frequencies.
—CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
The other is the difficulty of combining the observation scales with the frequency of the light detected because visible-light frequencies can reach far, far higher than those of radio waves.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2023
Like Julia Child charging onto public television to teach French cooking, Dr. Westheimer took to the radio waves to explain, in straightforward fashion, the ways of making love.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
The Deep Space Network is a system of radio antennae on Earth that helps the agency communicate with spacecraft exploring our solar system and releases radio waves to act as radar across space.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1915, in the meaning defined above
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“Radio wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radio%20wave. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
Kids Definition
radio wave
noun
: an electromagnetic wave with radio frequency
Medical Definition
radio wave
noun
ra·dio wave
ˈrād-ē-ō-ˌwāv
: an electromagnetic wave with radio frequency
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