Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A range of frequencies, especially radio frequencies, such as those assigned to communication transmissions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
range ofradio wavelengths orfrequencies ; for exampleshortwave ormediumwave
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals)
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word waveband.
Examples
-
If you tried to reproduce this in paint, you would find that as the waveband narrows, the proportion of light relected gets less - i.e. the surface gets darker.
Peak Saturation Value James Gurney 2010
-
The other object is SN 2007gr, which was first detected in August 2007 in the spiral galaxy NGC 1058, some 35 million light-years away it's one of the closest Ic supernovae detected in the radio waveband.
GRB Central Engines Observed in Nearby Supernovae? | Universe Today 2010
-
Virtually all branches of astronomy outside the visual waveband went from scratch to today's stunning results in less time than elapsed between the discovery of Saturn's rings and its fourth brightest moon!
-
Herschel Space Observatory will be the first space observatory covering the full far infrared and sub-millimetre waveband.
-
Once the active waveband for melanoma induction is identified, an action spectrum can be constructed.
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009
-
I mean, "the data" are pixel intensities … representing the flux of electromagnetic radiation detected in the visual waveband!
Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009
-
From the colours, I'd say it's a multi-waveband composite, with the purple x-ray or, perhaps, Fermi gamma.
-
This neither proves nor disproves whether this waveband is fully saturated by the 0.038% CO2 in the atmosphere.
-
The blackbody spectrum at 293 K = 70 F peaks at 9.9 um and emits 32% of its total energy in the same waveband.
-
Of course, for the purpose of encoding specific messages we utilized a multiplexing technique across an entire waveband-but we also used frequency multipliers and pulse-burst transmission.
Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.