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drift wave

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drift wave [′drift ‚wāv]
(plasma physics)
An oscillation in a magnetically confined plasma which arises in the presence of density gradients, for example, at the plasma's surface, and which resembles the waves that propagate at the interface of two fluids of different density in a gravity field.


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