Usually means: Stationary wave with fixed nodes.
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  1. standing wave: Merriam-Webster
  2. standing wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. standing wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. standing wave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. standing wave: Vocabulary.com
  6. standing wave: Wiktionary
  7. standing wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. standing wave: Dictionary.com
  9. Standing wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. standing wave: Rhymezone
  11. standing wave: FreeDictionary.org
  12. standing wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. standing wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Standing-wave, standing wave: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Standing Wave: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Standing Wave: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

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  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (standing wave)

noun:  (physics) A wave form which occurs in a limited, fixed medium in such a way that the reflected wave coincides with the produced wave. A common example is the vibration of the strings on a musical stringed instrument.

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