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n. (short wave English)
Usage examples of "short waves".
She was what sailors term rather a wet one, and as she plunged through the short waves the sea broke continually over her bows and chesstree, so that there was no occasion to draw water for purification.
Cuff thought, that blasted machine is an electronic tube of some sort, built to throw short waves of the length to affect animal genes.
When we look up on a cloudless day and admire the blue sky, we are witnessing the preferential scattering of the short waves in sunlight.
Ryan knew little about the ocean, but it seemed as though the ship were breasting long rollers, rather than the choppy, short waves encountered near the coast.
Faint, crackling, frying sounds came from the speaker of the space-phone now modified to receive what once were called short waves.
He had no idea, of course, that the first actual contact with the, strange space ship-was a burst of short waves of a frequency deadly to all animal life.