RADIO FREQUENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radio frequency mean? 

• RADIO FREQUENCY (noun)
  The noun RADIO FREQUENCY has 1 sense:

1. an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared

  Familiarity information: RADIO FREQUENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIO FREQUENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("radio frequency" is a kind of...):

frequence; frequency; oftenness (the number of occurrences within a given time period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "radio frequency"):

station (the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station)

ELF; extremely low frequency (below 3 kilohertz)

very low frequency; VLF (3 to 30 kilohertz)

LF; low frequency (30 to 300 kilohertz)

medium frequency; MF (300 to 3000 kilohertz)

HF; high frequency (3 to 30 megahertz)

very high frequency; VHF (30 to 300 megahertz)

UHF; ultrahigh frequency (300 to 3000 megahertz)

SHF; superhigh frequency (3 to 30 gigahertz)

EHF; extremely high frequency (30 to 300 gigahertz)

Holonyms ("radio frequency" is a part of...):

electromagnetic spectrum (the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves)

 Context examples 

Located more than 12,000 light-years from Earth, the object first stood out as peculiar when it was observed at particular radio frequencies.

(NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star, NASA)

In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies.

(High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer, National Institutes of Health)

Plasma that is produced using a torch and a radio frequency (RF) generator, wherein flowing gases are introduced into the torch, the RF field is activated and the gas in the RF coil region is made electrically conductive.

(Inductively-Coupled Plasma, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of three pairs of oppositely charged rods that are used in a mass spectrometer to filter out ions by focusing them in the center of the set of poles so that the radio frequency wave passed along the rods can propagate the ions from one end of the rods to the other.

(Hexapole, NCI Thesaurus)

“We believe that the link between radio frequency radiation and tumors in male rats is real, and the external experts agreed,” said Bucher.

(High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer, National Institutes of Health)

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded there is clear evidence that male rats exposed to high levels of radio frequency radiation (RFR) like that used in 2G and 3G cell phones developed cancerous heart tumors.

(High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer, National Institutes of Health)