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radio

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noun

wireless telegraphy or telephony: speeches broadcast by radio.

an apparatus for receiving or transmitting radio broadcasts.

a message transmitted by radio.

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adjective

pertaining to, used in, or sent by radio.

pertaining to or employing radiations, as of electrical energy.

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verb (used with object)

to transmit (a message, music, etc.) by radio.

to send a message to (a person) by radio.

verb (used without object)

to transmit a message, music, etc., by radio.

Origin:
1910–15; shortening of radiotelegraph or radiotelegraphy

Related forms

pre·ra·di·o, adjective

Example Sentences

Radio transmissions can cause cancers, along with many immune and nervous-system illnesses.

Salt water can catch a flame when exposed to certain radio waves, a chemist has confirmed.

There it will stay hidden in the scrub to serve as a radio repeater for the signal from the tiny bug left inside.

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Radio transmissions can cause cancers, along with many immune and nervous-system illnesses.

Salt water can catch a flame when exposed to certain radio waves, a chemist has confirmed.

There it will stay hidden in the scrub to serve as a radio repeater for the signal from the tiny bug left inside.

Local blues radio programming-which thrived during the blues heyday-is slim to nonexistent.

They've also extended the party well past game time, often catching the plays on radio or television as they continue feasting.

Now, it's a device that weighs under a pound and connects to a radio.

Sometimes it works, as when the radio industry enlisted the government's help to launch television as a replica of radio.

Sophisticated radio tags and database software are not much use in places where street hawkers peddle fakes with impunity.

Our radio shows have already reached dozens of planets in nearby star systems.

The researchers did not change the radio frequencies.

For bands, radio exposure has never been the end result.

Earhart's radio transmissions were too brief for them to determine her position.

Spiralling radio waves could revolutionize telecommunications.

Radio stations point their antennas away and operate at reduced power.

Thousands upon thousands of radio stations in every conceivable genre.

He'll discover that some of the static afflicting radio signals comes from distant stars.

It was inevitable that the radio tags that let cars breeze through toll plazas would get placed on, or in, people.

Cellphones use ultra-high-frequency radio waves to connect with telecommunications networks.

After all, decades of searching for extraterrestrial radio signals or evidence of alien civilizations have come up empty.

There are a few options for wireless off-camera flash: radio control and light-triggered slave units are both dumb solutions.

Paranormalists hear dead people speaking to them through a radio receiver.

After the entire human race is infected, turn the radio on and extinction happensin theory.

The aliens can detect the direction of our radio signals.

Woes in the radio industry have spurred a new wave of deal-making as broadcast radio scrambles to regain its groove.

The broadcaster wants to abolish two digital radio stations, shrink its.

Provides radio broadcast of the songs of humpback whales.

As multiband radio for public safety proceeds, the digital spectrum for it still lags.

Fitted with radio collars and tracked by volunteers, this family of golden lion tamarins roams.

Internet radio services keep getting better and attracting bigger audiences.

College radio is a critical part of its community, on-campus and off.

He appeared several times on radio programs around the country, talking about the unionization of graduate students.

Radar works by recording radio waves that have been reflected from the object under observation.

Bradley makes three tight circles, sweeping the air with the antenna, until the radio finally beeps.

As their over-the-air audience dwindles, radio programmers look to smartphones for new ears, and public radio is no exception.

The governor can be heard up and down the radio dial, showing qualities he otherwise struggles to demonstrate.

Since then the two sociologists have been through a torrent of radio interviews and public lectures.

Here's the travel radio that will let you keep the world in the palm of your hand.

Researchers sifting through extragalactic radio emissions may have found a secondary background.

Dewey, campaigned from trains and used radio as a primary means of communication.

The satellite radio companies are none too pleased.

Edison made his debut as a radio speaker in a novel fashion last night.

My discipline is communications, specifically film, television and radio production and criticism.

Similarly, some sensors already make more efficient use of another scarce resource: radio spectrum.

The radio emissions, called kilometric radiation, vary.

Using radio to communicate with a remote flash-gun, a camera could control the amount.

Increased mobility and the ubiquitousness of television and radio have done surprisingly.

Radio signals suggest that the storm's lightning bolts.

The scientists then fitted the quolls with radio collars and released them into the wild.

They will use their radio transmitters to exchange data with each other, and with a third picosat on the ground.

Tiny radio tags reveal that the insects rank alongside songbirds when it comes to long-distance travel, a new study shows.

Radar uses radio waves to enable aircraft, ships and ground stations to see far into their surroundings even at night and.

The audio version, pulled from a radio broadcast, is considered in the public domain.

As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star's emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up.

They put little spies into the molecules and send radio signals to them, and they have to radio back what.

Meanwhile, there are all these radio shows going right through their bodies and their villages, of which they're totally unaware.

Those controllers confer by radio with pilots about which predefined paths to follow for departure, ascent, descent and landing.

Perhaps you've seen one of his many movies, or heard his radio show.

Then, only half an hour later, he had come on the radio again to say that the two were in trouble and needed oxygen.

The black area shows which civilizations could have eluded our radio searches, either because they are too far away or.

It's got to be able to talk to troops' radio frequencies for alerts and mesh with existing bomb-signal jammers.

Light and radio waves are absorbed and scattered by interstellar gas and dust.

The first mortality signal came from the yearling male's radio collar in three weeks: no movement, dead of starvation.

Fans smothered the band with angry letters and many radio stations boycotted its music.

Moments before the first bombs fell he transmitted the radio message to ra to ra.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science.

The phonograph and radio threatened to wreck the idea of music copyright-then embodied in sheet music.

He gave a radio address demanding that executives should be criminally liable if they give intentionally misleading information.

Primero, las ondas de radio viajan de tu celular a una torre celular cerca de ti.

The research project had required outfitting the animals with radio collars.

When commercial radio took off, musicians bellyached.

The radio signal used two radio frequencies to represent the dark and light pixels of the message.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

a combining form with the meanings “dealing with radiant energy” (radiometer), “employing or dealing with radio waves” (radioacoustics; radiolocation; radiotelephone), “emitting rays as a result of the breakup of atomic nuclei” (radioactive; radiocarbon), “characterized by, employing or dealing with such rays” (radiography; radiopaque; radiotherapy).

Origin:
< French, combining form representing Latin radius beam, ray, radius

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World English Dictionary

radio (ˈreɪdɪəʊ)

—n , pl -os
1.	the use of electromagnetic waves, lying in the radio-frequency range, for broadcasting, two-way communications, etc
2.	an electronic device designed to receive, demodulate, and amplify radio signals from sound broadcasting stations, etc
3.	a similar device permitting both transmission and reception of radio signals for two-way communications
4.	the broadcasting, content, etc, of sound radio programmes: he thinks radio is poor these days
5.	a. the occupation or profession concerned with any aspect of the broadcasting of sound radio programmes: he's in radio
	b. (modifier) relating to, produced for, or transmitted by sound radio: radio drama
6.	radiotelegraph radiotelegraphy short for radiotelephone
7.	(modifier)
	a. of, relating to, employed in, or sent by radio signals: a radio station
	b. of, concerned with, using, or operated by radio frequencies: radio spectrum
8.	(modifier) (of a motor vehicle) equipped with a radio for communication: radio car

—vb , -os, -os, -oing, -oed
9.	to transmit (a message) to (a person, radio station, etc) by means of radio waves

[C20: short for radiotelegraphy]

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Word Origin & History

radio

"wireless transmission with radio waves," 1907, abstracted from earlier combinations such as radiophone (1881) and radio-telegraphy (1898), from radio-, comb. form of radiation (q.v.). Use for "radio receiver" is first attested 1917; sense of "sound broadcasting as a

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medium" is from 1922. Wireless remained more widespread until World War II, when military preference for radio turned the tables. The verb is attested from 1919.

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Medical Dictionary

radio- or radi-
pref.

Radiation; radiant energy: radiometer.
Radioactive: radiochemistry.
Radius: radiobicipital.

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Science Dictionary

radio   (rā'dē-ō) Pronunciation Key
Noun   The equipment used to generate, alter, transmit, and receive radio waves so that they carry information.

Adjective   Relating to or involving the emission of radio waves.

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