ALL meanings of wavefront
wave front
W w - noun wavefront A surface containing points affected in the same way by a wave at a given time. 1
- noun wavefront a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same. 1
- noun wavefront a surface associated with a propagating wave and passing through all points in the wave that have the same phase. It is usually perpendicular to the direction of propagation 0
- noun wavefront (physics) An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase. 0