wave shape

1. 1.

   the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time

   Synonymswave formwaveform

   Broaderwave

Questions about wave shape

What does wave shape mean?

wave shape means "the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time".

What is another word for wave shape?

Close synonyms include wave form, waveform. 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 wave shape a common word?

wave shape 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.