Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun stationary_wave

1 sense of stationary wave

Sense 1
standing wave, stationary wave -- (a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time)
       => wave, undulation -- ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)