waveform
The English word “waveform” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
- The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.
Etymology
From wave + form.
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