English Explanatory Dictionary

Schumann resonance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low-frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum, generated and excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.

Word forms

Schumann resonance Schumann resonances

Etymology

Named after the physicist Winfried Otto Schumann, who predicted them mathematically in 1952.

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