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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The continuous line or surface including all the points in space reached by a wave or vibration at the same instant as it travels through a medium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Physics) the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium
- n. all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates
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“The explosion's main wave front would indeed be well past the asteroid by now, but there would also be slower but still dangerous debris expanding outward behind that front.”
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