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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

NALT Core

Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. physics
  3. wave physics
  4. wavelengths

Preferred term

wavelengths

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information Distance in the direction of propagation of a periodic wave between two successive points at which the phase is the same (at the same time).

    Source: NASA Thesaurus

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • wave lengths
  • wave-lengths

In other languages

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/142401

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