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Well, I assume you are talking about waves, am I correct? Frequency is the distance between the crest and the trough of a wave. Gamma rays are the waves of highest frequency that we know of. Ultraviolet possesses a frequency just above the frequency of visible light (remember ROYGBIV). Descend in frequency beneath red and you'll come to infrared. While snakes can detect this (I am not yet sure how) the human eye cannot detect anything of this low frequency although we often use this in modern technology (note nightvision goggles). The higher the frequency, the smaller the wavelength and vice versa. Radio waves have an extremely short frequency and an extremely long wavelength.

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