Usually means: Wave oscillates parallel to propagation.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. longitudinal wave: Merriam-Webster
  2. longitudinal wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. longitudinal wave: Collins English Dictionary
  4. longitudinal wave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. longitudinal wave: Wiktionary
  6. longitudinal wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. longitudinal wave: Dictionary.com
  8. Longitudinal wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. longitudinal wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. longitudinal wave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Longitudinal Wave: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Longitudinal Wave: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (longitudinal wave)

noun:  (physics) Any wave in which the direction of disturbance is parallel to the direction of travel.

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