wavelength
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Each pixel measures just 49 nanometers, which is about ten times smaller than the wavelength of visible light.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
Black is the absorption of light; white is the presence of every wavelength.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
This effectively compressed the light into a region much smaller than its wavelength, allowing it to bypass the diffraction limit and reveal much finer details.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
This rule restricts how finely light can resolve details based on its wavelength.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
Alfred Lanning was saying wearily, “They won’t answer. We’ve tried every wavelength, public, private, coded, straight, even this subether stuff they have now. And The Brain still won’t say anything?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing wavelength
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Waves and Wave Properties - Middle School
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