Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The distance between one peak or crest of a wave of light, heat, or other energy and the next corresponding peak or crest.
- idiom. on the same wavelength Informal In complete accord; in harmony: "a fluid ... production in which author, director, designer and cast seem to be working on the same wavelength” ( James Lardner).
Wiktionary
- n. The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave
- n. a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding
Etymologies
- wave + length (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He was on a wavelength with her, in a way that most human beings aren't on a wavelength with animals. ”
“Right now the cloak operates for light between 1,400 and 1,800 nanometers in wavelength, which is the near-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, just slightly longer than light that can be seen with the human eye.”
“This extremely simple relationship can be considered as the completely adequate expression of Wien's energy distribution law; for with the dependence upon the energy, the dependence upon the wavelength is always directly given through the general, well-established displacement law by Wien.”
“If the wavelength is getting shorter, or blue shifted, then the star is approaching.”
“If appearing on a star spectrum of 486.3 mm - its wavelength is 486.1 … its radial velocity is .2/486.1 = (123.43)? do you multiply by 300,000? is it Approaching or receding?”
“CO2 can only trap light at a certain wavelength and has exponentially decreasing returns for warming.”
“In the headlight example, the wavelength is that of visible light, and the optical system is your eye.”
“The ripple wavelength is not simply the speed of the wheel times the bounce frequency of the suspension, which seems to be a common belief.”
“No one wavelength is preferentially absorbed or reflected, so snow is essentially the color of the sunlight reflecting off of it — white.”
Color me smart: 5 reasons why things are the color that they are
“The wavelength is taken to be 500 nm, the aperture width is 500 nm (i.e. one wavelength), and overall the images are 4000 nm by 4000 nm.”
Optics basics: What is a wave? Part III: Diffraction « Skulls in the Stars
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wavelength’.
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Public List: Free Association
Read the top word on the list and add a word that you associate with it. The association may be semantic, etymological, structural, literary, personal, etc.
Rules:
1. In t...mounch, mensch, trench, war, harmony, guitar, cigar, bubblegum, baseball cards, shortstop, bear, chained and 72 more...
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lasers
words associated with LASERS.
( open list, randomness )
NOTE: i'd like to keep the list specific to the LASER itself (Any LASER), and leave out applied sciences..
sp...electromagnetism, light, wavelength, phase, frequency, polarization, emission, optical, spectroscopy, lase, crystal, projection and 61 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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physics words
strangeness, quark, neutrino, uncertainty, meson, antimatter, accelerator, entropy, excitation, ohm, volt, amp and 24 more...
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Rainbows?!
superciliary, iridal, welkin, heterochrome, gwydion, cerulean, supernal, prismatic, optics, hypethral, cerulific, serein and 29 more...
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Experimental Film Titles
Words from titles I read about or saw in film school.
velocity, serene, wavelength, nostalgia, hapax legomenon, zorn's lemma, maxwell's demon, gesellschaft, troika
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wavelength.
skipvia If there is chemistry between two people, they may be said to be on the same wavelength. See Free Association. Feb 7, 2008