travelling wave

1. 1.

   a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave

   Synonymstraveling wave

   Broaderwave

   Narrowersoliton

Questions about travelling wave

What does travelling wave mean?

travelling wave means "a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave".

What is another word for travelling wave?

Close synonyms include traveling wave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is travelling wave a common word?

travelling wave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.