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STANDING WAVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does standing wave mean?
• STANDING WAVE (noun)
The noun STANDING WAVE has 1 sense:
1. a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time
Familiarity information: STANDING WAVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
standing wave; stationary wave
Hypernyms ("standing wave" is a kind of...):
undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)
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