electromagnetic wave

English

A sinusoidal electromagnetic wave—a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields

Pronunciation

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Noun

electromagnetic wave (plural electromagnetic waves)

1. (physics) Electromagnetic radiation, such as light and radio waves.

Translations

electromagnetic radiation

• Bulgarian: електромагнитна вълна f (elektromagnitna vălna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電磁波 / 电磁波 (zh) (diàncíbō)

• Finnish: sähkömagneettinen aalto (fi)
• French: onde électromagnétique (fr) f
• Galician: onda electromagnética f
• Georgian: ელექტრომაგნიტური ტალღა (elekṭromagniṭuri ṭalɣa)
• German: elektromagnetische Welle f
• Indonesian: gelombang elektromagnetik (id)
• Italian: onda elettromagnetica (it) f
• Japanese: 電磁波 (ja) (でんじは, denjiha)
• Korean: 전자기파 (ko) (jeonjagipa)
• Polish: fala elektromagnetyczna f
• Portuguese: onda eletromagnética f
• Romanian: undă electromagnetică (ro) f
• Russian: электромагни́тная волна́ (ru) f (elektromagnítnaja volná)
• Spanish: onda electromagnética (es) f
• Tagalog: dagibalniing liboy, liboy-dagibalniin
• Thai: คลื่นแม่เหล็กไฟฟ้า (th) (klêun mâe lèk fai fáa)
• Ukrainian: електромагні́тна хви́ля f (elektromahnítna xvýlja)
• Vietnamese: sóng điện từ (vi)

See also

• electromagnetic spectrum