electrostatic ion-cyclotron wave

electrostatic ion-cyclotron wave

[i¦lek·trə‚stad·ik ¦ī·ən ′sī·klə‚trän ‚wāv] (plasma physics) A longitudinal wave that propagates in a magnetically confined plasma at a very large angle to the magnetic field, with a frequency somewhat in excess of the ion-cyclotron frequency.