Usually means: Radio waves with higher frequencies.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word shortwave:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortwave: Merriam-Webster
  2. shortwave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shortwave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shortwave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Shortwave, shortwave: Wordnik
  6. shortwave: Wiktionary
  7. shortwave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. shortwave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. shortwave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shortwave: Dictionary.com
  11. shortwave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Shortwave (disambiguation), Shortwave (meteorology), Shortwave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shortwave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. shortwave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shortwave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortwave: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shortwave: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortwave: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shortwave)

▸ adjective:  (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of approximately 10 to 100 meters.
▸ adjective:  (of radio equipment) Capable of transmitting or receiving signals at such a wavelength.
▸ noun:  (physics) An electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between approximately 10 and 100 meters, corresponding to frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, usually in the plural) Any frequency in this range, especially when used in broadcasting.
▸ noun:  (meteorology) Downward radiation entering the earth's atmosphere that is in the shortwave frequency range.

Similar:
mediumwave, subwavelength, decametric, microgenic, hyperspatial, submegahertz, submicrometer, submicrometric, subkilometer, decimetric, more...

Opposite:
longwave, radio wave, medium wave

Types:
AM, FM, CW, SSB, more...

Phrases:
Shortwave radio, Shortwave radiation, shortwave diathermy, shortwave trough, shortwave diathermy machine, more...

Adjectives:
pulsed, net, continuous, total, international, incoming, old, athermic, left, powerful, second



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Similar:
mediumwave, subwavelength, decametric, microgenic, hyperspatial, submegahertz, submicrometer, submicrometric, subkilometer, decimetric, more...

Opposite:
longwave, radio wave, medium wave

Types:
AM, FM, CW, SSB, more...

Phrases:
Shortwave radio, Shortwave radiation, shortwave diathermy, shortwave trough, shortwave diathermy machine, Shortwave bands, Shortwave listening, more...

Adjectives:
pulsed, net, continuous, total, international, incoming, old, athermic, left, powerful, second



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