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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A radio wave with a wavelength in excess of 1000 meters.

WordNet 3.0

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

Examples

  • “He returned to them, the flimsiplast of the translation falling in a long wave down from his narrow fingers, like some arcane proclamation of a world's doom.”

    Simon & Schuster: Ishmael

  • “Till one last long wave shall whelm her, and our voyaging is past.”

    Spun-Yarn and Spindrift

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. radio radiation
  1. radio emission
  1. radio wave

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. air-billow
  2. comber
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  2. zastruga
  1. beachcomber
  2. earth-pulsation
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  2. roll
  1. rolling wave
  2. red
  1. swell
  2. permanent
  1. ridge
  2. roller

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