TRAVELLING WAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does travelling wave mean? 

• TRAVELLING WAVE (noun)
  The noun TRAVELLING WAVE has 1 sense:

1. a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave

  Familiarity information: TRAVELLING WAVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAVELLING WAVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

traveling wave; travelling wave

Hypernyms ("travelling wave" is a kind of...):

undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "travelling wave"):

solitary wave; soliton; soliton wave ((physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate)