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wave front

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wave front

Imaginary surface that represents corresponding points of waves vibrating in unison. As identical waves from the same source travel through a homogeneous medium, corresponding crests and troughs are in phase at any instant; that is, they have completed the same fraction of their periodic motion. Any surface drawn through all points of the same phase constitutes a wave front.

wave front
Of a sound wave, a continuous, imaginary surface which is the locus of points having the same phase at a given instant.
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