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Long wave   /lɔŋ weɪv/   Listen
Long wave

noun
1.
A radio wave with a wavelength longer than a kilometer (a frequency below 300 kilohertz).





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"Long wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Swallow and the stateliness of the birds of prey, the whole range of bird-motion seems included. The long wave of a Hawk's wings seems almost to send a slow vibration through the atmosphere, tolling upon the eye as yon distant bell upon the ear. I never was more impressed with the superior dignity of these soarings than in observing a bloodless contest in the air, last April. Standing ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... only to punish and impotent to defend, were at this time convulsing the provinces in every point of the compass. Rome herself had been menaced repeatedly. And a still more awful indication of the coming storm had been felt far to the south of Rome. One long wave of the great German deluge had stretched beyond the Pyrenees and the Pillars of Hercules, to the very soil of ancient Carthage. Victorious banners were already floating on the margin of the Great Desert, ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey


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