Definition of short wave in English:

1A radio wave of a wavelength between about 10 and 100 m (and a frequency of about 3 to 30 MHz)

1. 1.1mass noun Broadcasting using radio waves of between 10 and 100 m wavelength.
   as modifier short-wave radio

   Example sentencesExamples

   • All Church Services from Ballina-Boher parish are broadcast on short-wave radio.
   • Those who listened to international radio broadcasts will recall the ebb and flow of the short-wave signal as it made its way from the other side of the planet.
   • Records show that, on opening, it had space for 21 police vehicles, including 14 equipped with short-wave radios.
   • And the closest he can get to his family at Christmas is an e-mail sent from his expedition computer, a short wave radio message or, at best, a brief call on his mobile phone.
   • From 1936 onwards short-wave radio stations replaced the posts on the Yukon Telegraph line.
   • Next time they must plan better, with short wave transmitters.
   • The first was the short-wave transmitter, which could be used to communicate at great distances but was small enough to fit into an aircraft or tank.
   • The large sweep we had with that one short wave transmitter doesn't exist any more.
   • Overseas short-wave transmission wasn't reliable enough to send live commentary back to Australia.
   • With telephone connections so difficult from Arecibo, Hulse used the observatory's short-wave radio link to Cornell University.
   • Jim carried a tiny short-wave radio, but in these high valleys we could hear only Chinese and Russian voices.
   • I was lying in my tent and heard the news on my short-wave radio from the BBC World Service.
   • I was sharing a tent with John Hunt and set up a short-wave radio to listen to the Met Office weather report.
   • US officials were convinced their electronic eavesdropping devices had picked up his voice on a short-wave radio.
   • Earlier tonight, I had them bring you a short-wave radio.
   • Everything was censored and she relied on the BBC, broadcast through her short-wave radio, for real news from the outside world.
   • In devastated areas, short-wave radios are likely to be more common and reliable than Internet connections.
   • I mean, think about the ban on short-wave radio.
   • Eminent mathematicians once claimed to prove logically that short-wave radio was impossible.
   • She purchased a short-wave radio to listen to ‘Radio Hanoi,’ a Hanoi station that could be picked-up through a relay in Cuba, to collect any possible information.