Usually means: Uninterrupted, constant amplitude and frequency.
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  1. continuous wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. continuous wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. continuous wave: Wiktionary
  4. continuous wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. continuous-wave, continuous wave: Dictionary.com
  6. Continuous-wave, Continuous wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. continuous-wave, continuous wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. continuous wave: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. continuous-wave, continuous wave: Encyclopedia

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  2. continuous-wave, continuous wave: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (continuous wave)

noun:  An electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, typically a sine wave, that for mathematical analysis is considered to be of infinite duration.
noun:  (radio, historical, uncountable) An early method of radio transmission in which a sinusoidal carrier wave is switched on and off, and information is carried in the varying duration of the on and off periods.

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