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TRAVELING WAVE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the waveplay

Synonyms:

traveling wave; travelling wave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("traveling wave" is a kind of...):

undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "traveling wave"):

solitary wave; soliton; soliton wave ((physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate)

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