wavelength

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Each pixel measures just 49 nanometers, which is about ten times smaller than the wavelength of visible light.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

Black is the absorption of light; white is the presence of every wavelength.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

This effectively compressed the light into a region much smaller than its wavelength, allowing it to bypass the diffraction limit and reveal much finer details.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

Because light cannot be focused into a spot smaller than its wavelength, terahertz beams are too large to clearly probe tiny structures.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

It revealed that an electron orbiting around the nucleus could be thought of as a wave, with a wavelength that depended on its velocity.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking