La Palabra del Día: La onda
La onda
wave (NOT water-waves) , wavelength
Note: This word will be the official Word of the Day and will be posted November 16, 2011.
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My Example:
Creo que los éxitos y los fracasos en la vida de cada persona pueden ser mostrados como una onda sinusoidal.
I think that the successes and failures in the life of every person can be shown like sine wave.
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If two people have the same thought, opinion or interests we can say they are on the same wavelength . . . .
Si dos personas tienen el mismo pensamiento e interés o la misma opinión, se puede decir que están en la misma onda . . . .
Una onda puede parecer una ola, pero no lo es
We have two different words for wave in Spanish
onda
ola
Las ondas de radio difunden los mensajes a grande distancia.
The radio waves broadcast messages over great distances
Las ondas de sonido están transmitidas por el aire cuando se toca la membrana de un tambor. Sound waves are transmitted through the air when the skin of a drum is played.
Using ultrasound waves we can see a little creature before its birth.
Usando las ondas de ultrasonido podemos ver una criatura pequeña antes de su nacimiento.
Ondas de choque deben de estar reverberando en Australia hoy, ya que Nueva Zelanda ganó la semifinal de la Copa Mundial de Rugby ayer.
Shockwaves must be reverberating around Australia today, since New Zealand won the semifinal of the rugby world cup yesterday.
debe de estar instead of debe de ser, edit gracias a Drvicente
The four famous equations known as Maxwell's Equations describes everything we know about electromagnetic waves, including light waves, radio waves and x-rays.
Las cuatro ecuaciones famosas que se conocen conoce como ecuaciones de Maxwell describen todo lo que sabemos sobre las ondas de electromagnéticas, incluyendo del las ondas de luz, las ondas de radio y las ondas de rayos X.
Estamos buscando otras civilzaciones lejanas por las ondas del radio.
We are looking for other faraway civilizations through radio waves.
When I drive I almost can't hear my short-wave radio.
Cuando conduzco casi no puedo oír mi radio de onda corta.
En México se dice alguien "tiene buena onda" para decir que él o ella es una buena persona y es muy amable.
In Mexico they say that someone has "good vibes" to say that he or she is a good person and very nice.
Shortwave radio frecuencias are capable of reaching whatever location on earth. Las frecuencias de onda corta tienen la capacidad de alcanzar cualquier ubicación en la tierra.
A Veces me parece que no estamos en la misma onda.
Sometimes I think we are on a different wavelength.
En el salón de belleza se usan las ondas para hacer ritidectomía (eliminación de arrugas de la cara, cuello y escote) utilizando el láser en lugar de bisturí.
In the beauty salon we can use waves for face lifting (removal of wrinkles from the face, neck and neckline) using laser instead of scalpel.
¿Si la luz se compusiera de ondas en verdad, funcionarían los detectores de fotones, y si la luz se compusiera de partículas en verdad, ocurriría interferencia de ondas?
If light were really composed of waves, would photon detectors work, and if light were really composed of particles, would wave interference occur?
Un afinador de pianos escucha la interferencia entre las ondas que las cuerdas producen. A piano tuner listens for the interference between the sound waves that the strings produce.
