Wave Front

  

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Wave Front


Specialty Definitions: Wave Front

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

= phase front. (references)

Geological

See rupture front. (references)

Mining

In seismology, the surface of equal time elapse from the source point to the position of the resulting outgoing signal at any given time after the source charge has been activated. In a more restricted sense, the surfacealong which phase is constant at a given instant. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Wave Front

Synonym: wavefront (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wave Front

Specialty definitions using "wave front": angle of arrivalbow shock, bow wave, breaking sea, breaking wavediffracted wave, diffraction propagation, dynamic pressureHuygens principle, Huygen's principle, Huygens waveletslongitudinal wavemach stempropagation velocityshock front, spherical wave, spherical wave fronttransverse wave. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wave Front

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  wave front

12

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9

  wave front new york

3

  wave front rochester

3

  wave front ny

3

  wave front upstate new york

3

  wave front elmira

3

  wave front hornell

3

  wave front corning

2
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Modern Translations: Wave Front

Language Translations for "wave front"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

fronte d'onda. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

波面 (wave surface). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はめん (wave surface). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aveway ontfray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Wave Front

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-o-r-t-v-w"

-2 letters: fanwort, forwent, overfat.

-3 letters: atoner, avower, fawner, ornate, reavow, tavern, twofer, wafter, wanter.

-4 letters: afore, after, antre, atone, avert, favor, fetor, forte, fovea, frena, front, frown, noter, novae, oaten, oater, often, ofter, orate, ovate, overt, owner, raven, rewan, rewon, roven, rowan, rowen, tawer, tenor, toner, tower, trave, trona, trone, trove, voter, vower, wafer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wave Front


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 76 65      46 72 6F 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000110 01110010 01101111 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#70 &#114 &#111 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0076 0065      0046 0072 006F 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5767887124084818086

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Bibliographic Items: "wave front"


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