Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The form assumed by oscillations, as in water, sand, etc.
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Examples
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At this same locality I also found several horizons of dessication mudcracks, synaeresis mudcracks, and wave-form ripples.
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I suspect that the ball reverted to wave-form during my various eye-blinks when it was momentarily freed from the restraints of objective observation In three hours, I did not get one single, solitary point.
Archive 2008-03-01 Kosmo 2008
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This wire-weird longsong, he must have had some kind of wave-form projector in his pocket.
Trouble Magnet Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2006
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What if there's such a thing as an evil wave-form '?
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Guilt is now known to be an electromagnetic wave-form which is reflected and diffused by the material from which these shirts are made.
Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993
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And on the screen of the differential oscilloscope the fine green saw-tooth wave-form of the electronic trace, which gave continuously the instantaneous value of the brain's shortage in time, flickered insanely and apparently reasonlessly up and down; occasionally falling clear off the bottom of the screen.
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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'I see; and a difference in wave-form that would be imperceptible to me might mean a lot to you.'
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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Any wave-form reacts differently toward obstacles according to whether these are larger or smaller than its own wavelength.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Objects that are smaller do not; instead the wave-form tends to go around it.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The Englishman Isaac Newton believed that light consisted of speeding particles; the Dutchman Christian Huygens believed that it was a wave-form.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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