Usually means: Spatial frequency of a wave.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. wave number: Merriam-Webster
  2. wave number: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wave number: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wave number: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wave number: Vocabulary.com
  6. wave number: Wiktionary
  7. wave number: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. wave number: Dictionary.com
  9. Wave number: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. wave number: Rhymezone
  11. wave number: FreeDictionary.org
  12. wave number: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. wave number: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wave number: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Wave Number: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Wave Number: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See wave_numbers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wave number)

noun:  Alternative spelling of wavenumber [(mathematics, physics) A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.]

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