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If a photon is a particle moving like a wave, and the color we see when viewing a stream of photons is determined by their frequency, then how many oscillations of a wave constitute a single photon?

When an experiment speaks of shooting “a single photon” at a target, exactly “how much wave-form” is it speaking of? One complete oscillation?

Or am I thinking of this all wrong, making the question invalid?
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