waveform

English

Etymology

From wave +‎ form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

waveform (plural waveforms)

1. (mathematics) The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
2. (physics, engineering) 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.

Translations

mathematics

• Finnish: aaltomuoto (fi)
• Swedish: vågform c

physics

• Arabic: شَكْل مَوْجِيّ (šakl mawjiyy)
• Armenian: ալիքի ձեւ (alikʻi jew)
• Finnish: aaltomuoto (fi)
• German: Wellenform f
• Greek: κυματομορφή (el) f (kymatomorfí)
• Indonesian: bentuk gelombang
• Malay: bentuk gelombang
• Norwegian: bølgeform m
• Swedish: vågform c
• Thai: รูปคลื่น (rûup-klʉ̂ʉn)
• Turkish: dalga biçimi, dalga formu, dalga şekli

See also

• waveform on Wikipedia.Wikipedia