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  • 11Wave-line system — Wave Wave, n. [From {Wave}, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. [root]138. See {Wave}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from… …

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  • 12Wave-line theory — Wave Wave, n. [From {Wave}, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. [root]138. See {Wave}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from… …

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  • 13wave front — noun 1. all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates • Hypernyms: ↑propagation • Part Holonyms: ↑wave 2. (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a… …

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  • 14wave — I. n. 1. Undulation, billow, breaker, surge, swell, ripple. 2. Wave of vibration. 3. Water. 4. Unevenness, inequality of surface. II. v. n. 1. Undulate, float, play loosely, play to and fro. 2. Be moved ( …

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  • 15vibration — [n] shaking, quivering beating, fluctuation, judder, oscillation, pulsation, pulse, quake, quiver, resonance, reverberation, shake, shimmy, throb, throbbing, trembling, tremor, vacillation, wave, wavering; concepts 152,748 Ant. stillness …

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  • 16Vibration — For the soul music group, see The Vibrations. For the machining context, see Machining vibrations. For the albums, see Vibrations (Roy Ayers album) and Vibrations (The Three Sounds album). Classical mechanics …

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  • 17Wave — A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy. While a mechanical wave exists in a medium (which on deformation is capable of producing elastic restoring forces), waves of electromagnetic… …

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  • 18Wave equation — Not to be confused with Wave function. The wave equation is an important second order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves – as they occur in physics – such as sound waves, light waves and water waves. It arises in… …

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  • 19Vibration control — In earthquake engineering, vibration control is a set of technical means aimed to mitigate seismic impacts in building and non building structures [http://www.ecs.csun.edu/ shustov/Seismic Control Directory.html] . All seismic vibration control… …

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  • 20wave — 1. verb 1) he waved his flag in triumph Syn: brandish, shake, swish, move to and fro, move up and down, wag, sweep, swing, flourish, wield; flick, flutter 2) the grass waved in the breeze Syn …

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