Word.ws English Dictionary

significant wave height

significant wave height noun: a standardized measure of trough-to-crest wave height calculated for the needs of seafarers; exact mathematical definition has varied over time and currently it is defined as four times the standard deviation of the surface elevation.

Noun

significant wave height (plural significant wave heights)

  1. (oceanographics) A standardized measure of trough-to-crest wave height calculated for the needs of seafarers; exact mathematical definition has varied over time and currently it is defined as four times the standard deviation of the surface elevation.

Forms of significant wave height

pluralsignificant wave heights

Questions about significant wave height

What does significant wave height mean?
Significant wave height means a standardized measure of trough-to-crest wave height calculated for the needs of seafarers; exact mathematical definition has varied over time and currently it is defined as four times the standard deviation of the surface elevation.
What part of speech is significant wave height?
Significant wave height is a noun.
What is the plural of significant wave height?
The plural of significant wave height is significant wave heights.

Words near significant wave height in the dictionary

  1. significant figure
  2. significant figures
  3. significant other
  4. significant othered
  5. significant others
  6. significant wave height
  7. significant wave heights
  8. significant-othered
  9. significantly
  10. significantly othered
  11. significantness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: significant wave height (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “significant wave height.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/significant_wave_height. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.