light-waves

A transparent body casts no shadow; neither does it reflect light-waves -- that is, the perfectly transparent does not.

Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash 2010

We no longer have to contend with what used to seem mysterious in the causal theory of perception: a series of light-waves or sound-waves or what not suddenly producing a mental event apparently totally different from themselves in character.

Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

The instrument also enabled distances to be measured with greater accuracy by means of the length of light-waves.

Albert A. Michelson - Biography 1967

What the buttercup has is the different quality of reflecting light-waves of a particular wavelength.

RELATIVISM IN ETHICS D. H. MONRO 1968

If it were possible to de-miniaturize the light-waves as they leave the ship and miniaturise the returning reflection, we would be far better off.

Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

But when miniaturised light-waves go out there into a lessminiaturized or completely unminiaturized world, they are

Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

Hemoglobin itself was a bluish-purple, and in the erratic reflection of the miniaturised light-waves from the ship, each corpuscle glittered in flashes of blue and green with a frequently interspersed purple.

Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

Although miniaturised light-waves were more penetrating than the ordinary kind, miniaturised radio-waves seemed less penetrating.

Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

The outside 'visor-pickup, however, was fitted with filters which blocked out the gamma-rays and X-rays and most of the ultraviolet-rays, and added the longer light-waves of red and orange which were absent, so that things looked much as they would have under the light of a GO-type star like Sol.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

"Now, then, if they do have -- and I admit it's up to me to prove it," went on Tom, earnestly -- "why can't I send light-waves over a wire, as well as electrical waves?"

Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune Victor [pseud.] Appleton