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different
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The sounds they produce utilize different timbres and wavelengths to imitate cries and evoke natural entities and phenomena.
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Huffington and Shearer are on different political wavelengths .
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The same object may reflect different wavelengths at different times yet be seen as having the same colour.
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White light consists of light waves of all different wavelengths , or colors.
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In the interferometer no dispersing element is used, and no separation of different wavelengths is necessary.
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Each object shown in these pictures has been scanned at two or three different wavelengths .
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Radio waves are electromagnetic waves with a very long wavelength , measurable in metres.
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The longer wavelengths associated with heat were radiating through the thick plywood board that covered the one window in his darkroom!
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Unfortunately it is more difficult to make light sources and light receptors that work at this longer wavelength .
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For example red light has a longer wavelength than green, and green than blue.
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Red has the longest wavelength of visible light, and violet the shortest.
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However, the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum.
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Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light - but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation.
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It occurs when dust particles high in the atmosphere filter out most of the longer wavelengths of red light.
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The cavity magnetron was simple, rugged and cheap, and produced short wavelength radio waves - microwaves.
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These X rays and gamma rays are like waves of light, but with a much shorter wavelength .
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Left A fifth-order residual gravity map has been enhanced by the removal of the regional field to accentuate short wavelength anomalies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A powerful UV/Vis monochromator based detector allows wavelength selection by the turn of a dial and allows very low detection limits.
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Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light - but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation.
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Here, the wavelength is about 5 x 107m.
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The longer wavelengths associated with heat were radiating through the thick plywood board that covered the one window in his darkroom!
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The radiation, which comes From the arc in the mercury vapour, is mainly ultraviolet with a wavelength of 253-7 nanometres.
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Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours.
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You guys ... I guess you must have a wavelength going.