Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) electromagnetic radiation, such as light and radio waves
WordNet
n. radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge [syn: electromagnetic radiation, nonparticulate radiation]
Usage examples of "electromagnetic wave".
Bekuv was only too keen to read them long papers about gabfests through the galactic plasma by Soviet scientists, but he was listening very carefully when they told him what kind of work they were doing with their radio telescopes and electromagnetic wave transmissions.
Planck boldly guessed that the energy carried by an electromagnetic wave in the oven, like money, comes in lumps.
One single Medusa exploding at ground level can bring an industrial society to a halt by triggering a secondary electromagnetic wave covering a radius of two thousand miles.
Telemetry showed her the little craft was taking a beating on the magnetic and electromagnetic wave fronts.
Living in a mechanical age, Maxwell felt obliged to offer some kind of mechanical model for the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through a perfect vacuum.
Light is an electromagnetic wave, and there is one 'colour' for each possible wavelength of light, the distance from one electromagnetic peak to the next.
Back in the 1870s, the equations of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell indicated that light is an electromagnetic wave.
The Feynman radio works on the notion of photons-electromagnetic wave packets-traveling back in time.
Science clearly - very clearly - understands that once an electromagnetic wave is launched into space, it propagates to infinity.