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5941 | wave: indirect | Any WAVE which arrives by an indirect path having undergone an abrupt change of direction by REFRACTION or REFLECTION. See WAVE: SKY. |
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5942 | wave: internal | A WAVE that occurs within a fluid whose DENSITY changes with DEPTH, either abruptly at a sharp surface of discontinuity (an INTERFACE) or gr... more |
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5943 | wave: longitudinal | A WAVE in which the direction of displacement of each particle in the medium is perpendicular to the WAVE FRONT. |
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5944 | wave: Love (or Q-wave) | A TRANSVERSE WAVE propagated along the BOUNDARY of two elastic media which both have rigidity, i.e. both media must be capable of propagat... more |
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5945 | wave: modulated | A WAVE which varies in some characteristic in accordance with the variations of a MODULATING WAVE. See WAVE: CONTINUOUS. |
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5946 | wave: modulating | A WAVE which modulates a CARRIER WAVE. |
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5947 | wave: oscillatory | A WAVE in which each individual particle oscillates about a point with little or no permanent change in position. The term is commonly appli... more |
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5948 | wave(s): periodic | WAVES which are repeated at regular intervals. |
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5949 | wave: pressure | See PRESSURE WAVE. |
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5950 | wave: progressive | A WAVE which is manifested by the progressive movement of the wave form. The opposite is a STANDING WAVE. Also called travelling wave. |
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5951 | wave: propagation | The travel of waves through or along a medium. |
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5952 | wave(s): radio | ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES of FREQUENCIES generally higher than those of audible SOUND WAVES but lower than those of heat and light waves. Also c... more |
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5953 | wave: reflected | A WAVE that has had its direction of motion changed by REFLECTION. |
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5954 | wave: refracted | A WAVE that has had its direction of motion changed by REFRACTION. |
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5955 | wave: short | A RADIO WAVE shorter than those of the standard broadcasting band. In OCEANOGRAPHY, WAVES under conditions where the relative DEPTH (water d... more |
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5956 | wave: sky | An indirect RADIO WAVE which travels from the transmitting ANTENNA into the sky, where the IONOSPHERE bends it back toward the EARTH. Also c... more |
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5957 | wave: solitary | A WAVE OF TRANSLATION consisting of a single CREST rising above the undisturbed liquid level, without any accompanying TROUGH, in contrast w... more |
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5958 | wave: sound | A mechanical disturbance advancing with finite VELOCITY through an elastic medium and consisting of longitudinal displacements of the ultima... more |
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5959 | wave: spherical | A WAVE whose wave front surfaces are concentric spheres. Such WAVES propagate from a point source. |
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5960 | wave: standing | A type of WAVE in which the surface of the water oscillates vertically between fixed points, called NODES, without progression. The points... more |