Usually means: Surface connecting points of equal phase.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word wave front:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. wave front: Merriam-Webster
  2. wave front: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. wave front: Vocabulary.com
  4. wave-front, wave front: Wordnik
  5. wave front: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. wave front: Dictionary.com
  7. Wave front: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. wave front: Rhymezone
  9. wave front: FreeDictionary.org
  10. wave front: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. wave front: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wave front: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. wave front: Medical dictionary

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

(Note: See wave_fronts as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (wave front)

noun:  (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium
noun:  all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates


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