wave front

wave front

noun

Definition of WAVE FRONT

: a surface composed at any instant of all the points just reached by a vibrational disturbance in its propagation through a medium

First Known Use of WAVE FRONT

circa 1864

Rhymes with WAVE FRONT

affront, beachfront, bowfront, breakfront, cold front, confront, drag bunt, drop front, fly front, forefront, home front, housefront, lakefront, manhunt, out-front, seafront, shirtfront, shock front, shorefront, still hunt, storefront, swell-front, up-front, warm front, witch hunt

wave front

noun    (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of WAVE FRONT

: a surface composed at any instant of all the points just reached by a vibrational disturbance in its propagation through a medium

wave front

noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

Imaginary surface that represents corresponding points of waves vibrating in unison. As identical waves from the same source travel through a homogeneous medium, corresponding crests and troughs are in phase at any instant; that is, they have completed the same fraction of their periodic motion. Any surface drawn through all points of the same phase constitutes a wave front.