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Categories: Length, Waves, Articles with short description
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wavelength  angular wavelength  long wavelength limit  Optical wavelength  spatial period
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The distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave WordNet 3.0
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The distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. Wikipedia
Property of a wave. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Spatial period of the wave; the distance over which the wave's shape repeats; the inverse of the spatial frequency Wikidata
The distance between consecutive crests of a wave. OmegaWiki
The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency. Wiktionary
The length of a single cycle of a wave. Wiktionary (translation)
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