Word info

waveguide

Speech parts

1. waveguide - Noun

2. waveguide - Verb

Meaning

waveguide (plural waveguides)

A structure which guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves, light, or sound waves.

waveguide (third-person singular simple present waveguides, present participle waveguiding, simple past and past participle waveguided)

To act as a waveguide for

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A beam waveguide antenna, a type of Cassegrain design, showing the complicated signal path. Source: Internet

Acoustic waveguides main An acoustic waveguide is a physical structure for guiding sound waves. Source: Internet

A leaky mode or tunneling mode in an optical fiber or other waveguide is a mode having an electric field that decays monotonically for a finite distance in the transverse direction but becomes oscillatory everywhere beyond that finite distance. Source: Internet

A waveguide confines the wave to propagate in one dimension, so that, under ideal conditions, the wave loses no power while propagating. Source: Internet

A port in this context is a point where an external waveguide or transmission line (such as a microstrip line or a coaxial cable ), connects to the device. Source: Internet

A slotted line involves a waveguide (or air-filled coaxial line) in which a small sensing antenna measures the electric field along the transmission line directly. Source: Internet

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