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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | A wave that has had its direction of motion changed by refraction. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A wave produced in a medium by an incident wave coming from an adjacent medium. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Seismic wave travelling downward at the critical angle to a high-velocity layer, moving along the top of that layer and later emerging at the critical angle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | A wave which occurs when an ultrasonic beam passes obliquely from one medium to another each medium being characterised by different velocities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: REFRACTED WAVE |
| Specialty definitions using "REFRACTED WAVE": critical distance. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "REFRACTED WAVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | primærbølge (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), brudt boelge, brudt bølge (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gebroken golf, eerste golven (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taittunut aalto, johtoaalto (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ondes arrivant les premières, onde réfractée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kopfwellen (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), gebrochene Welle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κύματα πρώτης άφιξης (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), περιθλόμενο κύμα, διαθλώμενο κύμα, διαθλασμένο κύμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megtört hullám. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | onde di testa (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), onda rifratta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efractedray aveway onda refractada. (various references) primeras ondas en llegar (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), onda refractada. (various references) först anlända våg (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), bruten våg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-e-f-r-r-t-v-w" | |
-4 letters: aftercare, afterward, dewaterer, recreated, refracted. | |
-5 letters: acerated, acervate, careered, carefree, caveated, cratered, deaerate, defeater, defecate, federate, ferreted, freeware, raftered, recrated, recreate, redefeat, redefect, refected, retraced, reverted, reweaved, terraced, warcraft. | |
| 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)52 45 46 52 41 43 54 45 44      57 41 56 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000110 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010100 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E F R A C T E D   W A V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0046 0052 0041 0043 0054 0045 0044      0057 0041 0056 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523940523537543938257355639 |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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