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wave equations

wave equations is the plural of wave equation.

Meaning of wave equation

Noun

wave equation (plural wave equations)

  1. A second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields.
    • 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.1997, Ralph Phillip Bording, Larry R. Lines, Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Complete Wave Equation, SEG Books, →ISBN, page 68

Questions about wave equations

What is wave equations the plural of?
Wave equations is the plural of wave equation.

Words near wave equations in the dictionary

  1. wave down
  2. wave drag
  3. wave election
  4. wave elections
  5. wave equation
  6. wave equations
  7. wave field synthesis
  8. wave function
  9. wave functions
  10. wave goodbye
  11. wave in

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