complex wave
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And then there’s quantum physics—the stuff of superposition and complex wave function and the entanglement of particles that even Einstein once referred to as “spooky action at a distance.”
From Time • Nov. 2, 2016
The taped sounds are fed to a computer, which translates their complex wave shapes into the language of binary numbers and then works out a program for the analyzer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result, he said, would be a complex wave of 240,000 elements, which could be broadcast with little power on a narrow wave band and would be unscrambled by a scanning device in the receiver.
From Time Magazine Archive
Timbre is caused by the fact that each note from a musical instrument is a complex wave containing more than one frequency.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
All these currents are in the complex wave which comes from the radio-transmitter.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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