ground wave

1. 1.

   a radio wave propagated on or near the earth's surface

   Broaderradio wave

Questions about ground wave

What does ground wave mean?

ground wave means "a radio wave propagated on or near the earth's surface".

Is ground wave a common word?

ground 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.