electromagnetic wave

Questions about electromagnetic wave

What does electromagnetic wave mean?

electromagnetic wave means "radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge".

What is another word for electromagnetic wave?

Close synonyms include electromagnetic radiation, nonparticulate radiation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electromagnetic wave a common word?

electromagnetic wave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.