wavefront

IPA: wˈeɪvfrʌnt

(physics) An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase.

Examples of "wavefront" in Sentences

He brought up the first wavefront analysis on the padd.
“What would happen if this magnitude of a wavefront hit a mine?” prompted Scotty.
If the wavefront could carry Intrepid, it would have carried the mines as well, farther and more easily.
The position of the new wavefront is constructed by tracing the boundary of all these ’secondary’ wavelets.
“All right, so this trans-slipstream wavefront hit Intrepid at G-231, and knocked her all the way over to the Agni Cluster?”
Earth's geological history is recorded permanently in the rock strata, and it's like that for the whole universe, but its record is embedded in spacetime, left behind by the wavefront which is 'now'.
The bottom image illustrates aperture diffraction in Huygens construction; because the wavefront is ‘clipped’ at the edges of the aperture, the wavelets on the edges spread out into the ’shadow’ region of the aperture:
By customizing it to their particular eyes, either by means of what's called a wavefront map, or by means of a map of the shape of their eye, you put additional information into the laser, better data, better results, better night vision, and better safety.