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WAVEFRONT

• WAVEFRONT (noun)
The noun WAVEFRONT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: WAVEFRONT used as a noun is very rare.

• WAVEFRONT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

wavefront; wave front

Hypernyms ("wavefront" is a kind of...):

surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

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