单词 | wave front |
释义 | wave frontnoun Physics.a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same. Origin of wave frontFirst recorded in 1865–70 Words nearby wave frontwave election, wave energy, wave equation, wave farm, wave-form, wave front, wave function, waveguide, wavelength, wavelet, Wavell Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wave frontBritish Dictionary definitions for wave frontwavefront / (ˈweɪvˌfrʌnt) / nounphysics a surface associated with a propagating wave and passing through all points in the wave that have the same phase. It is usually perpendicular to the direction of propagation Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for wave frontwave front The set of points in space reached by a wave or vibration at the same instant as the wave travels through a medium. Wave fronts generally form a continuous line or surface. The lines formed by crests of ripples on a pond, for example, correspond to curved wave fronts. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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