Usually means: Distance between consecutive wave peaks.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. wavelength: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wavelength: Merriam-Webster
  3. wavelength, wavelength: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wavelength: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wavelength: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wavelength: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wavelength, wavelength: Wordnik
  8. wavelength: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wavelength: Wiktionary
  10. wavelength: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wavelength: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wavelength: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wavelength: Dictionary.com
  14. wavelength: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wavelength: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. WaveLength, Wavelength (album), Wavelength (disambiguation), Wavelength (song), Wavelength (soundtrack), Wavelength: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. wavelength: Rhymezone
  18. wavelength: FreeDictionary.org
  19. wavelength: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. wavelength: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. wavelength: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wavelength: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wavelength, wavelength: CCI Computer
  2. wavelength: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. wavelength: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wavelength: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. wavelength: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wavelength: Idioms

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Wavelength: Solar Radiation Resource Terms
  3. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Wavelength: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Wavelength: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  8. wavelength: UNCChem Glossary
  9. WAVELENGTH: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wavelength: Urban Dictionary

Tech (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. wavelength: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  3. wavelength: Electronics
  4. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  5. wavelength: Lighting Design Glossary
  6. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  7. JPL Terms (No longer online)
  8. WAVELENGTH: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  9. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  12. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  13. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  14. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (physics) The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency.
noun:  (figurative) A person's attitude and way of thinking as compared to another person's.

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