transverse vibrations

American  

plural noun

Physics.

1. periodic disturbances for which the particle oscillations of the medium are perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

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transverse vibrations

Ordinary light has transverse vibrations in all planes.

From The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

A calculation analogous to that of Lord Kelvin may be applied to find the frequency of small transverse vibrations of a cylinder of liquid under the action of the capillary force.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

In stringed instruments we are concerned only with the transverse vibrations of a string—that is, its movements in a direction at right angles to the axis of the string.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The idea of transverse vibrations carried with it another puzzle.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams

Among material bodies, a solid alone really possesses the rigidity sufficient for the production within it of transverse vibrations and for their maintenance during their propagation.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré