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| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonym: Wave FrontSynonym: wavefront (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Wave Front |
| Specialty definitions using "wave front": angle of arrival ♦ bow shock, bow wave, breaking sea, breaking wave ♦ diffracted wave, diffraction propagation, dynamic pressure ♦ Huygens principle, Huygen's principle, Huygens wavelets ♦ longitudinal wave ♦ mach stem ♦ propagation velocity ♦ shock front, spherical wave, spherical wave front ♦ transverse wave. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wave front | 12 |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | ||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 76 65      46 72 6F 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000110 01110010 01101111 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a v e   F r o n t |
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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