How to Use radio wave in a Sentence

radio wave

noun
  • The denser the atmosphere, the more the GPS radio wave bends.
    Eric Niiler, WIRED, 18 June 2019
  • The team tracked the signals set out by the DSN and found a few stars that may have been hit by the radio waves.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The signal for phosphine is a radio wave with a wavelength of 1.123 mm.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
  • This high-speed Wi-Fi is based on millimeter wave radio waves in the 60GHz range.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 16 Oct. 2018
  • The much dimmer pulsar does still give off radio waves.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
  • New tools like radio wave scanners and AI photo apps can help.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Capella’s satellites will use radio waves, rather than light, to create images of the surface of the Earth.
    The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Indeed, Granger found that on days when radio waves from the sun are at their strongest, gray whales are four times more likely to strand.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The telescope can detect very faint radio waves given off by fine dust.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 July 2019
  • There's radio, radio waves all the way up to past the visible spectrum to gamma rays.
    WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Bluetooth is a kind of radio wave, and very similar to things like garage door openers.
    Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Quasars gobble up matter and shine brightly in many wavelengths of light, from radio waves to X-rays.
    Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
  • Sharma told Ghannouchi about his research and his work with radio waves.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2023
  • MeerKAT also mapped out the polarization of the radio wave, revealing a magnetic field along the edge of the sphere.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Li-Fi enables Wi-Fi to use light waves instead of radio waves to transmit and receive data.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2023
  • These might include laying a new metal screen on the desert ground beneath the antennas, to act as a mirror for radio waves.
    Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Each MHz refers to a radio wave that cycles one million times per second, while a GHz wave cycles one billion times.
    BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Radar systems send out radio waves, which then bounce off nearby objects.
    Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Was thrilled to be cleared to do neck muscle Botox along with a crazy combo of beta-blocker shots and radio wave frequency.
    Photo: David Crotty/patrick McMullan/getty Images., refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • The spacecraft not only snapped a photo of a lightning storm but also detected radio waves from the strikes.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 June 2018
  • As the dish turns, the antenna sends out beams of energy, called radio waves, into the atmosphere.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
  • Law is excited about the implications of having a new class of radio wave sources.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 June 2022
  • Then what makes a radio wave different than a visible light wave?
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The radio waves would be transmitted via the small boxes to a variety of devices, from smartphones to self-driving cars.
    Daily Pilot, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The number of times per second that a radio wave radiates is referred to as its frequency.
    Christian De Looper, BGR, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The body of his report detailed how the radio waves could sow brain cancer, a terrifying disease that kills most of its victims.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • Other astronomers had spotted strange sources of radio waves known as quasars at enormous distances — two-thirds of the way back to the universe’s beginning.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
  • At that point, the radio wave will be reflected, and the deceleration will be reversed.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • At the simultaneous signals of a short-range radio wave and siren blast, the battles for speed and position would cease and all vehicles were required to pull to the side of the road.
    August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020

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