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A structure that guides electromagnetic or acoustic waves along a defined path.
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- microwave waveguide
- optical waveguide
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The waveguide carried microwaves into the chamber.
A crack interrupted the optical waveguide.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular waveguide; plural waveguides. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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