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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An electromagnetic wave, usually of radio frequency, produced by the oscillation of electricity in a conductor.

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  • noun an electromagnetic wave generated by oscillations in an electric circuit

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.]

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