SKY WAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sky wave mean? 

• SKY WAVE (noun)
  The noun SKY WAVE has 1 sense:

1. a radio wave that is reflected back to earth by the ionosphere or a communications satellite; permits transmission around the curve of the earth's surface

  Familiarity information: SKY WAVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKY WAVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radio wave that is reflected back to earth by the ionosphere or a communications satellite; permits transmission around the curve of the earth's surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("sky wave" is a kind of...):

radio emission; radio radiation; radio wave (an electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between 0.5 cm to 30,000 m)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sky wave"):

ionospheric wave (a sky wave that is reflected by the ionosphere)