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Noun: stationary wave
  1. A wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time
    - standing wave

Derived forms: stationary waves

Type of: undulation, wave

Encyclopedia: Stationary wave

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