extraordinary wave


nounRadio.
  1. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics different from those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.

Origin of extraordinary wave

1
First recorded in 1880–85

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How to use extraordinary wave in a sentence

  • An extraordinary wave of emotion came over him, finely strung as he was, and susceptible to all grades of feeling.

    Halcyone | Elinor Glyn
  • However, neither Luke Trull nor any extraordinary wave of natural predators had as yet attacked the muskrat colonies.

    Swamp Cat | James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • How are we to account for this extraordinary wave of Cabalism in Western Europe?