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Amateur radio operators will try an experiment during both the annular and total solar eclipses to see how these phenomena change the way radio waves travel.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
However, these storms can disrupt navigation systems, radio waves and power grids.
—John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2024
As noted above, Breakwater consumes 70 watts, converting 30 watts in radio waves; the other 40 watts are dissipated as heat.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
To achieve this sort of radar-invisibility, stealth planes have physical shapes that reduce radar signature, along with special coatings that dampen the reflectivity of radio waves.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
Scientists are interested in measuring radio waves on the far side of the moon, the quiet side, which hasn’t been measured since 1973, says Dr. Kring.
—Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2024
Also on board: an innovative sensor using radio waves to accurately determine how much cryogenic propellant is left in a tank in the weightless environment of space, technology expected to prove useful for downstream moon missions and other deep space voyages.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
When the radio waves detect a target, energy is reflected back to the Doppler, according to the National Weather Service.
—Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 1 Feb. 2024
Using waveguides, the army now had a way to transmit bursts of radio waves to detect objects at a distance, which is obviously useful in a war.
—Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 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 18 Mar. 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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