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full-wave: dipole whose electrical length is one wavelength
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

full-wave: a circuit which is arranged to deliver unidirectional current to a load and which comprises a combination of rectifiers permitting the passage of current in one direction during both positive and negative half-waves of a single-phase a.c.supply
Category: News-systems and communications

full-wave: X-ray apparatus in which both half cycles of the high voltage transformer output are applied to the X-ray tube in the same polarity by rectification
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

full-wave: inversion of the negative half-cycle of the input sinusoid so that the output contains two half-sine pulses for each input cycle
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-wave: half of a complete wave,i.e.a complete rise and fall in one direction
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

longwave: Radiation which is at wavelengths greater than approximately 4.0 um and which is emitted by the ground and other terrestrial objects.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

medium-wave: the infra-red radiation having maximum emission at a wavelength between 2 and 4 micrometres
Category: Physics

microwaves: electromagnetic waves of sufficiently short wavelength that practical use can be made of waveguide and associated cavity techniques in their transmission and reception
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

N-wave: the characteristic form of a sonic boom pressure signature.It may be normal,peaked or rounded according to atmospheric conditions
Category: The cosmos

quarter-wave: in a waveguide capable of propagating two waves of orthogonal polarisations having the same phase change coefficient,a device which introduces a phase-shift of pi[pi/2] radians of one wave with respect to the other
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

quarter-wave: one quarter-wavelength long and resonating at slightly less than 4 L,where L is length
Category: News-systems and communications

quarter-wave: a type of balun for coupling a balanced aerial to a coaxial line.It consists of a quarter-wavelength coaxial shield around the outer conductor of the coaxial line and connected to it at the end remote from the junction of the coaxial line and the balanced aerial
Category: News-systems and communications

quarter-wave: quarter-wave length of transmission line that serves as an impedance transformer
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

quarter-wave: a contact piston in which rubbing contact is made at the free ends of thin quarter-wave length long metal strips which extend from the plunger face and lie close to the waveguide walls
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

TE-wave: In a homogeneous isotropic medium, an electromagnetic wave in which the electric field vector is everywhere perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

TEM-wave: In a homogeneous isotropic medium, an electromagnetic wave in which both the electric and magnetic field vectors are everywhere perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

TM-wave: In a homogeneous isotropic medium, an electromagnetic wave in which the magnetic field vector is everywhere perpendicular to the direction of propagation.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

wave: 1.A disturbance which moves through or over the surface of the medium (here: the ocean) with speed dependant upon the properties of the medium.2.A ridge, deformation or undulation of the surface of a liquid
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

wave: disturbance on the surface of the sea caused by local winds, and represented numerically by the Douglas scale
Category: Management in the public and private sector

wave: Oscillatory movement of the sea which results in an alternate rise and fall at the surface.Waves are produced by the wind blowing at the time and place of observation as distinguished from swells which usually result from a storm at a place more or less distant.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

wave: deformation of a web of e.g.paper normally at the edges,as a result of a non-uniform moisture content
Category: Various industries and crafts

wave: a movement in the water by which a portion rises above,and then subsides below the normal level DU BUREAU HYDROGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951
Category: General

wave: a formation of forces, landing ships, craft, amphibious vehicles or aircraft, required to beach or land about the same time. Can be classified as to type, function or order as shown: a. Assault wave; b. Boat wave; c. Helicopter wave; d. Numbered wave; e. On-call wave; f. Scheduled wave
Category: Defense

wave: The disturbance in a body of water propagated at a constant or varying speed,often of an oscillatory nature.
Category: The cosmos

wave-tilt: the angle between the normal to the surface of the earth and the major axis of the ellipse traced by the electric vector
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

waveform: the representation of the local or the instantaneous value of a function defining the wave
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

waveform: the shape of the graph representing the successive values of a varying quantity,usually voltage,current or power,plotted against another variable,usually time,and generally in a rectangular co-ordinate system
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

wavefront: a surface normal to an electromagnetic ray as it propagates from a source,the surface of the wavefront passing through those parts of the waves that are in the same phase
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

wavefront: a continuous surface drawn through all points in a wave disturbance which have the same phase
Category: Physics

waveguide: rectangular or circular metal pipe that has a predetermined cross section, specifically designed to guide or conduct highfrequency electromagnetic waves through its interior or any other equivalent system of material boundaries capable of guiding waves; an elongated volume of air or other dielectric, bounded along its length by one or more surfaces which may be conducting or may be surfaces of discontinuity of permittivity and/or permeability; used for guided transmission of electric waves. Usually restricted to a rectangular or circular metal tube of such dimensions that energy at the desired frequency can be propagated
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

waveguide: a system to transmit hyperfrequency electromagnetic energy from the emitter to the applicator
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

waveguide: the transmission line consisting of a system of material boundaries or structures for guiding electromagnetic waves
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

wavelength: the distance between the peaks of two consecutive waves in a wave train
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

wavelength: the perpendicular distance between two wavefronts in which the phase differs by one complete period
Category: Physics

wavelength: the distance in the direction of propagation of a periodic wave between two successive points at which the phase is the same,at the same time
Category: Physics

Wavelet: small shockwave,usually present in large numbers in boundary layers and around surface of supersonic body
Category: Physics

wavellite: the natural aluminium phosphate
Category: Chemistry

wavenumber: the reciprocal of wavelength,to the frequency of wave
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

waverider: a lifting body,designed for flight at supersonic or hypersonic speeds,which relies essentially on a shockwave,or system of shockwaves,beneath its lower surface for producing its lift force
Category: Transport

wavetilt: the forward inclination of a radio wave due to its proximity to ground
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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