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

1 sense of wave number

Sense 1
wave number -- (the reciprocal of the wavelength of a wave)
       => frequency, frequence, oftenness -- (the number of occurrences within a given time period; "the frequency of modulation was 40 cycles per second"; "the frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older")