CONTINUOUS WAVE

Domain	Definition
Computing	Continuous wave (CW) A term from early radio history, when the spark gap method of transmission was replaced by vacuum-tube oscillators. A spark gap initiates a ringing, damped sinusoidal wave in a tuned circuit consisting of an inductor and capacitor. The energy in this circuit is constantly changing between the capacitor's electrostatic field and the inductor's magnetic field. The energy is then coupled, loosely (so as not to dampen the wave too quickly), to the radiating antenna. In contrast, a vacuum-tube oscillator constantly adds energy to the tuned circuit, compensating for the amount coupled to the antenna, and the transmitted energy or "wave," is therefore "continuous". Many (especially radio amateurs) continue to understand "CW" to mean transmission by means a signal of a single frequency which is either on or off (e.g. Morse code), as opposed to a carrier which varies continuously in amplitude, frequency or phase. Some would even call the former "unmodulated" even though turning on and off is actually an extreme form of amplitude modulation. (1995-03-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Electrical Engineering	A signal of constant amplitude used to differentiate between the performance of a microwave component for continuous power levels vs. pulsed signals. Source: European Union. (references)
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	Continuous wave Doppler velocity radar unit, which provides a running record of the speed of rocket-powered models fired at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics' pilotless aircraft research station on Wallops Island, Va., and two operators. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Expression: CONTINUOUS WAVE

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Modern Translation: CONTINUOUS WAVE

Language		Translations for "CONTINUOUS WAVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		CW (sustained wave, type AO wave), kontinuerligt signal, kontinuerlig bølge. (various references)

Dutch		CW (call waiting, sustained wave, type AO wave), continue golf (sustained wave, type AO wave), ongedempte golf (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

Finnish		CW (call waiting), jatkuva aalto (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

French		onde entretenue. (various references)

German		ungedämpfte Welle (sustained wave, type AO wave), kontinuierliche Welle (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

Greek		CW (call waiting), κύμα σταθερού πλάτους (sustained wave, type AO wave), συνεχές κύμα (sustained wave, type AO wave), σταθερό κύμα (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

Hungarian		folytonos hullám, folyamatos hullám, állandó hullám. (various references)

Italian		onda persistente (sustained wave, type AO wave), onda continua (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

Pig Latin		ontinuouscay aveway

Portuguese		onda contínua (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

Spanish		CW, onda sostenida (sustained wave, type AO wave), onda entretenida (sustained wave, type AO wave), onda continua (sustained wave, type AO wave). (various references)

Swedish		bärvåg (carrier, carrier wave). (various references)
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Anagrams: CONTINUOUS WAVE

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	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-n-o-o-s-t-u-u-v-w"
	-4 letters: autoecious, continuous, evocations, novocaines.
	-5 letters: coinvents, conations, continues, continuos, contusion, countians, covenants, cutaneous, evocation, innocuous, innovates, invocates, isooctane, novations, novocaine, outvoices, tenacious, unenvious, vasotocin, venations, vinaceous, vocations.
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Domain	Title
Books	Doppler echocardiography : the quantitative approach : quantitative methods of pulsed & continuous wave cardiac Doppler (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression	Frequency per Day
continuous wave	15
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CONTINUOUS WAVE

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Expression: CONTINUOUS WAVE

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continuous wave

Modern Translation: CONTINUOUS WAVE

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Expression using "CONTINUOUS WAVE": modulated continuous wave. Additional references.
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