REFRACTED WAVE

  

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REFRACTED WAVE

Specialty Definition: REFRACTED WAVE

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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.

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Synonym: REFRACTED WAVE

Synonym by domain: schmidt (geography).

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Crosswords: REFRACTED WAVE

Specialty definitions using "REFRACTED WAVE": critical distance. (references)

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Modern Translation: REFRACTED WAVE

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

   

Portuguese

  

onda refractada. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

primeras ondas en llegar (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), onda refractada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

först anlända våg (conical wave, head waves, von Schmidt wave), bruten våg. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: REFRACTED WAVE

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.

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Alternative Orthography: REFRACTED WAVE


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)

    

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)

&#82 &#69 &#70 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#86 &#69

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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