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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The number of waves per unit distance in a series of waves of a given wavelength; the reciprocal of the wavelength.
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- noun physics The number of waves per unit length; the
reciprocal ofwavelength .
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- noun the reciprocal of the wavelength of a wave
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