wave train

American  

noun

Physics.

1. a series of successive waves spaced at regular intervals.

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wave train British  

noun

1. physics a series of waves travelling in the same direction and spaced at regular intervals

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wave train Scientific  

1. A succession of wave cycles moving at the same speed and typically having the same wavelength.

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Etymology

Origin of wave train

First recorded in 1895–1900

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wave train

The warming generated a Rossby wave train that traveled toward the continent, helped establish a north-south circulation pattern over East Antarctica, altered the movement of moisture, and increased regional snowfall.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

That warming triggered what scientists call a Rossby wave train, a large-scale pattern of atmospheric waves capable of transmitting changes in weather and circulation across enormous distances.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Tuesday evening’s wave train was big enough to be seen from weather satellites in space!

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

But as the wave train approaches the shore, each wave makes contact with the shallow seafloor, friction increases, and the wave slows down.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

This unbroken wave train does not affect the telephone and is not audible in a telephone receiver inserted in the radio receiving circuit.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Walter Kellogg Towers