wavelike
Americanadjective
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These liquid chambers alternately bulge and elongate, creating a visible and slow wavelike ripple along a worm’s body, scooting it forward.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
"We leveraged the wavelike nature of spin waves to successfully control their propagation directly," points out Taichi Goto, associate professor at Tohoku University's Electrical Communication Research Institute, and co-author of the paper.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
Using ship-borne imagery, the team calculated the rates of retreat by studying patterns of wavelike ridges along the seafloor.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
That’s because part of measuring interference relies on two wavelike particles being indistinguishable from each other.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 11, 2023
Maxwell’s equations predicted that there could be wavelike disturbances in the combined electromagnetic field, and that these would travel at a fixed speed, like ripples on a pond.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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