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SLOW WAVE

Specialty Definition: SLOW WAVE

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

An electromagnetic wave that propagates in a bounded medium with a phase velocity below the phase velocity in the same medium when unbounded. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SLOW WAVE

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Health

Non-REM sleep is characterized by sleep spindles and slow wave activity in the EEG. Sleep is differentially distributed into the dark portion of the daily cycle of light and dark. This regulation of sleep reflects basic brain mechanisms that provide the circadian organization of both behavioral and physiological processes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SLOW WAVE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coupled edge filter slow wave

7

slow wave

6

slow wave sleep

3

helical slow wave

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SLOW WAVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-s-v-w-w"

-2 letters: loaves, vowels, wolves.

-3 letters: aloes, avows, awols, laevo, laves, loves, lowes, lowse, oaves, ovals, salve, salvo, selva, slave, soave, solve, swale, vales, valse, veals, voles, vowel, wales, waves, wawls, weals.

-4 letters: ales, aloe, alow, also, aves, avos, avow, awes, awls, awol, lase, lave, lavs, laws, leas, leva, levo, lose, love, lowe, lows, olea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SLOW WAVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4C 4F 57      57 41 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001100 01001111 01010111 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#79 &#87 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 004F 0057      0057 0041 0056 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53464957257355639

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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