waveguide

English

Alternative forms

• wave guide

Etymology

From wave +‎ guide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

waveguide (plural waveguides)

1. A structure which guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves, light, or sound waves.

Derived terms

• metawaveguide
• microwaveguide
• nanowaveguide
• nonwaveguide

Descendants

• → German: Wellenleiter m (calque)
• → Polish: falowód m (calque)
• → Russian: волново́д m (volnovód) (calque)

Translations

a structure which guides waves

• Azerbaijani: dalğaötürən
• Bulgarian: вълновод m (vălnovod)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波導 / 波导 (zh) (bōdǎo)

• Dutch: golfgeleider (nl), golfpijp (nl)
• Finnish: aaltojohto
• French: guide d'onde m
• German: Wellenleiter m
• Japanese: 導波路 (どうはろ, dōharo)
• Macedonian: брановод (mk) m (branovod)
• Polish: falowód (pl) m
• Russian: волново́д (ru) m (volnovód)

Verb

waveguide (third-person singular simple present waveguides, present participle waveguiding, simple past and past participle waveguided)

1. To act as a waveguide for.
   • 2009 January 8, Y. Chassagneux, R. Colombelli, W. Maineult, S. Barbieri, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, S. P. Khanna, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, “Electrically pumped photonic-crystal terahertz lasers controlled by boundary conditions”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI:

     The advantage of transverse magnetic polarization, however, is the possibility of exploiting surface plasmons for waveguiding.