Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The line along which any point in any wave is propagated.

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Examples

  • Also, I chose this location because my sensors indicated that this area is located on a sufficient angle to protect us from the wave-path.

    Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990

  • If the buildings are detached and large, simple and symmetrical in form, well built and not too much injured, the fissures in the walls should, he argued, occur along lines at right angles to the wave-path, whether that path be parallel or inclined to the principal axis of the building.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • _ -- Within the third isoseismal line Mallet made altogether 177 measurements of the direction of the wave-path at 78 places.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • But the general course of the fissures, he urged, would be at right angles to the wave-path, and their inclination to the vertical should be equal to the angle of emergence.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • The mean direction of the wave-path, as deduced from nine sets of fissures, none of which differs more than four degrees from the mean, is W. 2-1/2° S. and E. 2-1/2° N., which corresponds precisely with the direction of throw on the displaced portion of the dome.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • He regarded such fissures, indeed, as "the sheet-anchor, as respects direction of wave-path, to the seismologist in the field," and at least three out of every four of his determinations of the direction were made by their means.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • But that each wave-path should actually intersect the focus, and so enable its magnitude to be determined, would surely involve an approach to some law connecting the direction of a wave-path with the depth of its own origin, and no such law seems to be ascertainable.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • The direction EP gives the azimuth of the wave-path, or its direction along the surface of the earth.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • The horizontal direction PL of the wave-path at any place P (Fig. 4), when produced backwards, must pass through the epicentre E; and the intersection of the directions at two places, P and Q, must therefore give the position of the epicentre.

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

  • Mallet argued that the direction of the wave-path FPA, or its equivalents, the horizontal direction EPL and the angle of emergence

    A Study of Recent Earthquakes Charles Davison 1899

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