radio wave

English

Alternative forms

• radiowave

Pronunciation

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Noun

radio wave (plural radio waves)

1. (physics) Electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength between about .5 centimeters and 30,000 meters; used for the broadcasting of radio and television signals.

   Synonym: Hertzian wave (dated)

Related terms

• radio frequency
• radio-frequency (adjectival)

Translations

electromagnetic radiation

• Albanian: valë radio f
• Arabic: مَوْجَة رَادْيُو f (mawjat rādyō)
• Armenian: ռադիոալիք (hy) (ṙadioalikʻ)
• Azerbaijani: radio dalğası
• Belarusian: радыёхва́ля f (radyjoxválja)
• Bulgarian: радиовълна́ (bg) f (radiovǎlná)
• Burmese: ရေဒီယိုလှိုင်း (rediyuihluing:)
• Catalan: ona de ràdio f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無線電波 / 无线电波 (zh) (wúxiàndiànbō)

• Czech: rádiová vlna f
• Danish: radiobølge c
• Dutch: radiogolf (nl) f
• Estonian: raadiolaine
• Finnish: radioaallot pl, radioaalto (fi)
• French: onde radio (fr) f
• Galician: onda de radio f
• Georgian: რადიოტალღა (radioṭalɣa)
• German: Radiowelle (de) f
• Greek: ραδιοκύμα (el) n (radiokýma)
• Hebrew: גַּל רַדְיוֹ m (gal rádyo)
• Hindi: रेडियो तरंग f (reḍiyo taraṅg)
• Hungarian: rádióhullám (hu)
• Italian: radioonda (it) f
• Japanese: 電波 (ja) (でんぱ, denpa)
• Kazakh: радиотолқын (radiotolqyn)
• Khmer: រលកវិទ្យុ (rɔlɔɔk vityuʼ)
• Korean: 전파(電波) (ko) (jeonpa)
• Kyrgyz: радио толкуну (radio tolkunu)
• Lao: ຄື້ນວິທະຍຸ (khư̄n wi tha nyu)
• Latvian: radiovilnis m
• Lithuanian: radijo banga f
• Macedonian: ра́диобран m (rádiobran)
• Malay: gelombang radio
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: radiobølge m or f

• Persian: موج رادیویی (mowj-e râdiyoyi)
• Polish: fala radiowa f
• Portuguese: onda de rádio f
• Romanian: undă radio f
• Russian: радиоволна́ (ru) f (radiovolná), радиоизлуче́ние (ru) n (radioizlučénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: радиоталас m, радиовал m

  Latin: radiotalas m, radioval m

• Slovak: rádiová vlna f
• Slovene: radijski val m
• Spanish: onda radioeléctrica f, onda de radio f
• Swedish: radiovåg (sv) c
• Tajik: мавҷи радио (mavj-i radio)
• Thai: คลื่นวิทยุ (th) (klʉ̂ʉn-wít-tá-yú)
• Turkish: radyo dalgası (tr)
• Ukrainian: радіохви́ля f (radioxvýlja)
• Uzbek: radio toʻlqini
• Vietnamese: sóng vô tuyến

See also

• LW, MW, SW
• microwave, shortwave, mediumwave, longwave