microwave oven
noun
: an oven in which food is cooked by the heat produced by the absorption of microwave energy by water molecules in the food
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Being hit by extremely concentrated microwave radiation could be harmful; this is why microwave ovens have mesh screens that keep the rays from escaping.
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025
And a bevy of other consumer technologies including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microwave ovens, and satellite radio operate at frequencies between 1.9 GHz and 6 GHz.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2016
The microwave oven didn’t emerge from a quest to revolutionize cooking.
—Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Unwanted transmissions can be inherent in the design of a device, such as a microwave oven, whose RF cooking energy also contains a large amount of RF noise.
—Mark A. McHenry, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2015
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Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025
And a bevy of other consumer technologies including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microwave ovens, and satellite radio operate at frequencies between 1.9 GHz and 6 GHz.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2016
The microwave oven didn’t emerge from a quest to revolutionize cooking.
—Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Unwanted transmissions can be inherent in the design of a device, such as a microwave oven, whose RF cooking energy also contains a large amount of RF noise.
—Mark A. McHenry, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2015
See All Example Sentences for microwave oven
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“Microwave oven.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microwave%20oven. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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