| NOUN | event | traveling wave, travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
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| Meaning | A wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave. | |
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| Synonym | travelling wave | |
| Narrower | soliton, soliton wave, solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance |
| Broader | wave, undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
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