John le Carre wrote fiction espionage novels. Espionage novels are novels which focus on a spy's life or spying in general. His most famous work is The Spy That Came In from the Cold.
The definition of a ditz is slang for someone who is silly or who seems to have scattered thinking. An example of ditz is a silly dumb person who just giggles all day. ditz. Slang a person thought of as being flighty, eccentric, silly, etc. ditz.
In physics, the number of crests of a wave that move past a given point in a given unit of time. The most common unit of frequency is the hertz (Hz), corresponding to one crest per second. The frequency of a wave can be calculated by dividing the speed of the wave by the wavelength. Thus, in the electromagnetic spectrum, the wavelengths decrease as the frequencies increase, and vice versa.