"waveform" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-waveform.wav Forms: waveforms [plural]
Etymology: From wave + form. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wave|form}} wave + form Head templates: {{en-noun}} waveform (plural waveforms)
  1. (mathematics) The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable. Translations (mathematics): aaltomuoto (Finnish), kształt fali [masculine] (Polish), forma de onda [feminine] (Spanish), vågform [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. (physics, engineering) The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.
    Sense id: en-waveform-en-noun-Rt3dk10G Categories (other): Engineering, Physics, Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 55 45 Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (physics): شَكْل مَوْجِيّ (šakl mawjiyy) (Arabic), ալիքի ձեւ (alikʻi jew) (Armenian), aaltomuoto (Finnish), Wellenform [feminine] (German), κυματομορφή (kymatomorfí) [feminine] (Greek), bentuk gelombang (Indonesian), bentuk gelombang (Malay), bølgeform [masculine] (Norwegian), kształt fali [masculine] (Polish), vågform [common-gender] (Swedish), รูปคลื่น (rûup-klʉ̂ʉn) (Thai), dalga biçimi (Turkish), dalga formu (Turkish), dalga şekli (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'physics': 47 53

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (e2469cc and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.