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extraordinary wave

noun

, Radio.
  1. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics different from those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of extraordinary wave1

First recorded in 1880–85

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