How to Use wavelength in a Sentence
wavelength
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They were limited to a depth of seven frames by the wavelengths used and the size of the DMD.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2023
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So to us, their light appears to have a longer wavelength.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
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The pair, who are adorably nervous all evening, appear to be on the same wavelength.
—Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
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Luisi and the orchestra were challenged to keep on the same wavelength.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
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That movement stretches the light and makes its wavelength longer.
—Sarah Scoles, Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
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This is the wavelength of light that the pigment granules in the hogfish absorb best.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
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As objects move away from us, the wavelength is stretched, shifting it toward the red end.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 13 Dec. 2022
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Those are precisely the wavelengths at which these small red dwarf stars give off most of their light.
—WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
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No wavelength is perfect, Longcore says, but blue and white are worst of all.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
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More than 100 countries are thinking along the same wavelength.
—Ted Dhillon, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
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The light from screens uses blue light, which is made up of shorter wavelengths that are perceived by the brain as a cue to be alert and awake9.
—Emily Elveru, Parents, 3 Aug. 2023
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Consumers appear to be on the same wavelength as investors.
—Paul Vigna, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
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That tiny mass corresponds to a wave with a vast wavelength, as long as a small galaxy.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2024
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Much of the ocean appears blue to human eyes, but the true color may contain a mix of wavelengths, from blue to green and even red.
—Time, 13 July 2023
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Jenna Ortega and Aubrey Plaza are on the same wavelength.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2023
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The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and the farther signals can travel.
—Stephanie Yangstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
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The color of that light depends on its wavelength, which is affected by the size of the quantum dot, which ranges from 2–10 nm.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2022
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If the wavelength were much shorter, like visible light, the radio waves would have been scattered by the dust.
—Katie McCormick, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
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So Butler and his team settled on the theme of wavelength properties to show hearing and sound.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
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That causes light from those distant objects to get stretched to longer wavelengths.
—David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
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Of course, there is one big catch—the distance between these two crystals can’t be larger than the wavelength of the sound wave itself.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
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And yet the ensemble manages to work on the same weird wavelength, many of them playing two characters in one.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
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Monochromatic means that the light is one single wavelength.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 24 Dec. 2021
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The three men were on the same wavelength in at least one respect: subversive in their joke-telling, earnest in their personal lives.
—NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
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Metal plates and mirrors inside the box captured the solar wavelengths that came through the glass window – and the oven would heat up to 350 degrees.
—Johanna Mayer, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2023
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While the sun is partially obscured, some wavelengths that trigger pain are blocked, dulling the reflex to look away.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
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On the other hand, Webb, which launched to space in 2021, detects near- and mid-infrared light of longer wavelengths than the visible spectrum.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Leaves look green because that’s the light wavelength that is mostly reflected back at our eyes.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 10 June 2022
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Perkins and Cage remained on the same wavelength throughout pre-production, says the filmmaker.
—Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
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In short, some studies suggest that certain wavelengths of UV may relieve eczema symptoms.
—Humeara Mohamed, refinery29.com, 15 July 2024
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