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MACH WAVE

Specialty Definition: MACH WAVE

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Aerospace

1. A shock wave theoretically occurring along a common line of intersection of all the pressure disturbances emanating from an infinitesimally small particle moving at supersonic speed through a fluid medium, with such a wave considered to exert no changes in the condition of the fluid passing through it. The concept of the Mach wave is used in defining and studying the realm of certain disturbances in a supersonic field of flow.2. A very weak shock wave appearing, e.g., at the nose of a very sharp body, where the fluid undergoes no substantial change in direction. (references)

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Crosswords: MACH WAVE

Specialty definitions using "MACH WAVE": Mach angle, Mach cone. (references)

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Anagrams: MACH WAVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-m-v-w"

-3 letters: macaw, mache.

-4 letters: ache, acme, ahem, amah, came, cave, cham, chaw, chew, each, haem, hame, have, mace, mach, wame, wave, wham.

-5 letters: aah, ace, aha, ama, ava, ave, awa, awe, cam, caw, cwm, hae, ham, haw, hem, hew, mac, mae, maw, mew, vac, vaw, wae, wha.

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Alternative Orthography: MACH WAVE


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

4D 41 43 48      57 41 56 45

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

    

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

01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0043 0048      0057 0041 0056 0045

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

47353742257355639

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