shock front
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shock front
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Supershear quakes send intense shaking farther from the epicenter and strike twice, according to Elbanna -- a sharp initial blow from the shock front followed by the trailing waves.
From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025
As they looked through the data, the team found that the shock front kept colliding with the disc, disturbing its rhythm, causing tiny streams of gas to fly outwards.
From Space Scoop • Sep. 19, 2025
Image: Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk distorted by a shock front created by an expanding bubble.
From Space Scoop • Sep. 19, 2025
Eventually pressure from interstellar matter checks the heliosphere's expansion, creating a boundary—preceded by an enormous shock front, the “termination shock”—with interstellar space.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022
From the air, the explosion’s shock front could be seen racing across the lagoon toward an armada of ninety mothballed warships—American, German, and Japanese—which were moored nearby.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2016
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