Wavefront

Definition: Wavefront

Wavefront

Noun

1. (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium.

Synonym: Wavefront

Synonym: wave front (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wavefront

Specialty definitions using "wavefront": apparent velocity ♦ Fusion meditations ♦ reflection law. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Wavefront

"Wavefront" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Wavefront" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.86%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	7.14%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wavefront

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
alias wavefront	140	custom wavefront lasik eye surgery	4
wavefront	122	pennsylvania wavefront	4
wavefront lasik	70	king prussia wavefront	4
eye guided laser surgery wavefront	50	map wavefront	4
wavefront technology	27	norristown wavefront	4
alias wavefront maya	26	wavefront lasik eye surgery	3
guided lasik wavefront	16	san francisco wavefront lasik	3
wavefront maya	13	wavefront new york	3
visx wavefront	6	keira knightley wavefront	3
custom lasik wavefront	6	san jose wavefront	3
eye surgery wavefront	6	san jose wavefront lasik	3
custom surgery wavefront	5	lasik surgery wavefront	3
wavefront laser eye surgery	5	california wavefront	3
laser vision correction wavefront	5	stockton wavefront lasik	3
custom lasik surgery wavefront	5	stockton wavefront	3
wavefront technology wisconsin	5	los angeles wavefront lasik	3
laser wavefront	5	wavefront elmira	3
wavefront wisconsin	5	wavefront ny	3
philadelphia wavefront	5	wavefront corning	3
format obj wavefront	4	laser surgery wavefront	3
		wavefront hornell	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wavefront

Language		Translations for "wavefront"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		波前. (various references)

Danish		indkommende bølgefront (arriving wavefront). (various references)

Dutch		inkomend golffront (arriving wavefront). (various references)

French		front de l'onde incidente (arriving wavefront). (various references)

German		ankommende Wellenfront (arriving wavefront). (various references)

Greek		μέτωπο προσπίπτοντος κύματος (arriving wavefront). (various references)

Italian		fronte d'ombra incidente (arriving wavefront). (various references)

Pig Latin		avefrontway

Portuguese		frente da onda incidente (arriving wavefront). (various references)

Spanish		frente de la onda incidente (arriving wavefront), frente de la onda de llegada (arriving wavefront). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Wavefront

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.
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