Air Wave is the name of three superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first two were active in the Golden Age of Comic...
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Internal wave, a wave within a fluid medium Shock wave, in aerodynamics Sound wave, a wave of sound through a medium such as air or water Tidal wave, a scientifically...
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A tropical wave (also called easterly wave, tropical easterly wave, and African easterly wave), in and around the Atlantic Ocean, is a type of atmospheric...
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Shock waves in air are heard as a loud "crack" or "snap" noise. Over longer distances, a shock wave can change from a nonlinear wave into a linear wave, degenerating...
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In physics, a standing wave, also known as a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space...
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cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap, cold spell or Arctic Snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically...
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Trance Atlantic Air Waves (also known as TAAW), is a side project from Enigma's Michael Cretu. He had previously worked with Jens Gad on Enigma's 1996...
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factors. As long as the waves propagate slower than the wind speed just above, energy is transferred from the wind to the waves. Air pressure differences...
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Acoustic waves are a type of energy propagation that travels through a medium, such as air, water, or solid objects, by means of adiabatic compression...
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Wavelength (redirect from Wave length)
medium (for example, vacuum, air, or water) that a wave travels through. Examples of waves are sound waves, light, water waves and periodic electrical signals...
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heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.: 2911 Definitions vary but are similar. A heat wave is...
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called a wave orbit. Gravity waves on an air–sea interface of the ocean are called surface gravity waves (a type of surface wave), while gravity waves that...
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A seismic wave is a mechanical wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth or another planetary body. It can result from an earthquake (or...
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Speed of sound (section Compression and shear waves)
in ordinary air, deviating slightly from ideal behavior. In colloquial speech, speed of sound refers to the speed of sound waves in air. However, the...
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of the air within this air current. They always occur in groups on the lee side of the terrain that triggers them. Sometimes, mountain waves can help...
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Refraction (redirect from Wave refraction)
but other waves such as sound waves and water waves also experience refraction. How much a wave is refracted is determined by the change in wave speed and...
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Reflection seismology (section Air wave)
reflected seismic waves. The method requires a controlled seismic source of energy, such as dynamite or Tovex blast, a specialized air gun or a seismic...
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Rogue waves (also known as freak waves or killer waves) are huge and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated...
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falling on the island sends off air waves, it does not produce sound if no human is within the distance where the air waves are strong enough for a human...
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Power inverter (redirect from Sine wave inverter)
inverter may produce a square wave, sine wave, modified sine wave, pulsed sine wave, or near-sine pulse-width modulated wave (PWM) depending on circuit design...
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heat wave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A heat wave is a prolonged period of unusually hot weather. Heat Wave or heatwave may refer to: Heat Wave (comics)...
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Sound (redirect from Sound wave)
evoked by the oscillation described in (a)." Sound can be viewed as a wave motion in air or other elastic media. In this case, sound is a stimulus. Sound can...
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this heat wave, Death Valley recorded a record high temperature of 57 °C (134 °F) at Furnace Creek, which still remains the highest ambient air temperature...
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blast waves is similar to that of sound waves or water waves. Blast waves cause damage by a combination of the significant compression of the air in front...
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wave. The relation of frequency and wavelength in a radio wave traveling in vacuum or air is λ = c f , {\displaystyle \lambda ={\frac {\;c\;}{f}}~...
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List of Bose shelf stereos (redirect from Bose wave radio)
"from a small enclosure by guiding air through two 26” folded wave guides". The first "Wave" product was the "Acoustic Wave Music System" (AWMS-1), which was...
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wave when compared to the majority of those of the 1930s, 1988, 1976–78 and 1954–56, which were powered by extremely hot, dry, bare soil and/or air masses...
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Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries around Ploiești,...
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Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality. At all scales where measurements have been practical...
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possible to excite Zenneck wave type waves on flat metal-air interfaces and transmit power across metal obstacles. Longitudinal wave Body-centric wireless...
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