short wave

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   a radio wave with a wavelength less than 100 meters (a frequency greater than 3 megahertz)

   Broaderradio wave

Questions about short wave

What does short wave mean?

short wave means "a radio wave with a wavelength less than 100 meters (a frequency greater than 3 megahertz)".

Is short wave a common word?

short 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.