waveband
nounEtymology From wave + band.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A range of electromagnetic wavelengths or frequencies; for example shortwave or mediumwave radio.
- Since stomiids are sensitive to the far-red bioluminescence produced by their suborbital photophores, which other animals in the deepsea cannot sea, they have what could be regarded as a private waveband.2013, Friedrich G. Barth, Ecology of Sensing: