Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wave equation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables: wave e-qua-tion
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.

Example Sentences

"In seismic processing substantial computing effort is consumed by programs based on the acoustic and elastic wave equation. The next two sections describe a compute engine for these wave equations."

Inflected Forms

wave equations (plural)

Questions

What does wave equation mean?: A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.

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