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- noun Plural form of
lightwave .
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Examples
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And while the tall, strapping, handsome 56-year-old Mr. Moss is a major factor in the show's success in the U.S., he is nothing but "lightwaves" abroad, Mr. Gregg says.
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The answer also depends on something called "dark matter," which makes up most of the universe but is not observable in the electromagnetic radiation spectrum we know as lightwaves.
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The lightwaves cross over each other, so you put another lens in to flip it back over.
Learn: Identify constellations, stars, planets and how to navigate at night maryrobinette 2008
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As for my handwaving; we understand how photons gravitate, but is that the same as how lightwaves radiate?
Dark Matter: Still Existing Sean 2007
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I guess the stretching out you described would be meaningless to an observer on the surface, as all the lightwaves hit at once.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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South Africa and New Zealand will try to make an unbroken record of the oscillating lightwaves emitted by one of these stars in a bid to decipher that code.
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In addition it incorporated a tiny electromagnetic set to produce a deflection field which imparted quasi-hydromechanical qualities to the surrounding medium so that the propagation of lightwaves was directed in streamlines around the field thereby making the man inside invisible.
Venus in Danger Mahr, Kurt 1976
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In here, you are seeing miniaturised lightwaves with an equally miniaturised retina and all is well.
Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966
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It is said that lightwaves are fast, that radiowaves are fast, but ideas travel even faster than light.
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Finally scenery is slid in on runners and the whole company, in costumes grotesque and beautiful, go through a burlesque that keeps you laughing when you are not applauding, and admiring when you are doing neither; while alternating lightwaves from overhead electric devices flood the picture with shifting, shimmering tides of color.
Europe Revised 1910
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