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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Example Sentences

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 Williams, Archibald

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 Poincaré, Lucien

The property is rather a kind of elasticity, which ordinary fluids do not possess, but which facilitates the propagation of transverse vibrations.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

But as the head increases, so do the lateral velocities which go to form the transverse vibrations.

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

Let us therefore endeavour to form a mental picture of this aetherial wave motion with its transverse vibrations.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George