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waveform

waveform noun: the shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.

Noun

waveform (plural waveforms)

  1. The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
  2. The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.

waveform meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati and Arabic

waveform in Tamil

அலைப்படம், அலைவடிவம்

waveform in Bengali

একটি ভৌত তরঙ্গের আকৃতি, তড়িৎ প্রবাহ

waveform in Gujarati

waveform
તરંગરૂપ taraṅgrūp

waveform in Arabic

physics
شَكْل مَوْجِيّ šakl mawjiyy
More languagesFewer languages
waveform in Malay
bentuk gelombang
waveform in Indonesian
bentuk gelombang
waveform in Thai
รูปคลื่น rûup-klʉ̂ʉn

Examples of waveform in a sentence

  • These retracking functions cover a much wider range of possible waveform shapes than the Brown model.
  • Usually, a clock waveform used in a system is a square wave.
  • The last point we wish to address is the misassociation of waveforms, or cycle skipping.

All 13 example sentences with waveform

Forms of waveform

pluralwaveforms

Plural of waveform: waveforms

Origin of waveform

From wave + form.

Words formed from waveform

Questions about waveform

What does waveform mean?
Waveform means the shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
What is waveform in Tamil?
Waveform in Tamil is அலைப்படம், அலைவடிவம். See Waveform meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is waveform?
Waveform is a noun.
What is the plural of waveform?
The plural of waveform is waveforms.

Words near waveform in the dictionary

  1. wavedashes
  2. wavedashing
  3. wavefield
  4. wavefields
  5. wavefolding
  6. waveform
  7. waveforms
  8. wavefront
  9. wavefronts
  10. waveful
  11. wavefuls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: waveform (page history and authors); waveform (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); waveform (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); તરંગરૂપ (Gujarati) (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.

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