"cnoidal" meaning in English

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        "Describes a travelling wave whose amplitude is constricted; e.g. a wave in shallow water."
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          "travelling wave",
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          "amplitude",
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        "(mathematics, physics) Describes a travelling wave whose amplitude is constricted; e.g. a wave in shallow water."
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          "word": "dnoidal"
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          "word": "cnoïdal"
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          "roman": "knoidálʹnyj",
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          "word": "кноида́льный"
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  "etymology_text": "Coined by Diederik Korteweg and Gustav de Vries in their paper in Philosophical Magazine (1895, series 5, vol. 39, pp. 422-443) to describe a class of solutions to the KdV equation which involve a Jacobi elliptic function. The Jacobi elliptic function involved is commonly written as cn(x|m), and the term cnoidal was designed to be analogous to sinusoidal, the word describing waves which involve the sine function.",
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      "word": "кноида́льный"
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