How to Use waveform in a Sentence

waveform

noun

• The waveform is one giant waveform.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 27 Mar. 2026
• But if the inner core was shifting its speed in a cycle, some of these waveforms would repeat.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2024
• Doctor scrutinized shifts in its pulse waveform, a clue to how hard its heart was working.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
• This works by playing a sound through your speakers while a microphone measures the waveform.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• Extracting the waveform from a person’s fingertip was the easy part.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
• These new sounds create a waveform that twists to a point like a screw — so the researchers called them tornillos, Spanish for screw.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 13 June 2018
• There was the signal, and there was their prediction of what the waveform from the merger of two black holes would look like overlying it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2016
• But Sethi's artistic interpretation of a waveform is all her own.
  — Bijan Hosseini, CNN, 10 June 2021
• On the right half of the screen, squiggly lines display waveforms that correspond to the functions being performed on the qubits.
  — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2019
• The method for charting this involves studying seismic waveform data from earthquakes.
  — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 17 Feb. 2025
• In Trim’s thick Geechee accent (coca-nut wataa), the words come alive and escape the contours of the waveform.
  — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 11 May 2026
• In the ideal situation, the two waveforms are perfectly in phase with each other (left).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2019
• For example, the Podcasts app only shows cover art and a little waveform.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 3 Oct. 2022
• Many speech models use neural audio codecs that convert waveforms into discrete symbols.
  — Gautam Jha, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• This means specifying the waveform—a pattern of infrared pulses—that must be sent for each Lego command.
  — Diomidis Spinellis, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2016
• The main one at the bottom shows image frame previews and audio waveforms, while the solid blue one at the top is useful for navigation.
  — PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
• These allowed operators to mimic the voltage waveform of a strong energy source with that of weak sources, like solar and wind farms.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• The name relates to the electrical waveforms produced by the heart on an electrocardiogram trace, which contort and writhe.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Björk combines her cries of pain with the scrapes and bangs of waveform generators and dissonant string orchestrations.
  — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
• Next to that section is a box about the size of a desktop printer, which sends those waveforms as electrical pulses through wires and into the silver cylinder.
  — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2019
• Traditional samplers at the time would loop the last waveform during the decay phase of the sound and this turned the piano sound into what sounded like an organ.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• But zooming in on the waveform of an individual song syllable can reveal these fine acoustic details.
  — Adam Fishbein, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
• This is different from chips that handle analog waveforms, like the chips that manage radio signals or power electronics.
  — Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2023
• Even to the untrained eye, Apple's version stands out for the extra space within the waveform's boundaries—and this was audible to the ear, too.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• When all is said and done, the Watch's screen shows your ECG waveform and includes a description of what that reading means.
  — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
• When light interacts with certain objects, like crystals, its waveform changes and begins to oscillate with a unique signature.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
• Each token contains important information about a portion of the audio waveform compressed in a smaller amount of space.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
• These appliances reduce the home’s power factor [orange] by shifting current and voltage out of phase or by distorting the current waveform.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2019
• More than half of the original white light’s energy is compressed into that half waveform, making the power of the light enormous, 50 gigawatts.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2016
• As per the scientists, the tool relies on advanced analysis of waveform data, which captures changes in voltage, current, and frequency across the grid.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026