SKIP DISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skip distance mean? 

• SKIP DISTANCE (noun)
  The noun SKIP DISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere

  Familiarity information: SKIP DISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIP DISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere

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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("skip distance" is a kind of...):

distance; length (size of the gap between two places)