Definition of Hertzian wave in English:
Hertzian wave
nounˈhəːtsɪənˌhərtsiən ˈweɪv
former term for radio wave
Example sentencesExamples
- Marconi had a neighbour, Professor Augusto Righi, who had been experimenting on Hertzian waves and who encouraged him.
- We represent the longitudinal scalar wave as a horizontal vector, and the usual Hertzian wave as a vertical or ‘transverse’ vector.
- Gugliemo Marconi filed the first patent for communication using Hertzian waves in 1896.
- The young man's imagination was stirred by the account given of Hertz's work, and the idea occurred to him that Hertzian waves might be used in communication.
- In Farrow's explanation, he said that the dynamo acted to ‘intensify the vertical component’ of the Hertzian waves which it generated.
Definition of Hertzian wave in US English:
Hertzian wave
nounˌhərtsiən ˈweɪvˌhərtsēən ˈwāv
former term for radio wave
Example sentencesExamples
- The young man's imagination was stirred by the account given of Hertz's work, and the idea occurred to him that Hertzian waves might be used in communication.
- We represent the longitudinal scalar wave as a horizontal vector, and the usual Hertzian wave as a vertical or ‘transverse’ vector.
- Gugliemo Marconi filed the first patent for communication using Hertzian waves in 1896.
- Marconi had a neighbour, Professor Augusto Righi, who had been experimenting on Hertzian waves and who encouraged him.
- In Farrow's explanation, he said that the dynamo acted to ‘intensify the vertical component’ of the Hertzian waves which it generated.