Sentence examples for height of the wave from inspiring English sources

The height of the wave is reported to have been a huge 60-feet; nearly rivalling the Guinness World Record.

The judges in the XXL competition will try to calculate the height of the wave by comparing it with the height of the surfer in the photograph.

The limiting current (IL) is the height of the wave measured from the extrapolated linear portion of the current and is proportional to concentration.

These circumstances made possible an exact line of sight from the bridge to the wave crest, and simple mathematical calculations based on the dimensions of the ship gave the height of the wave.

Specifically, it gives the amplitude (the maximum height of the wave above and below zero) and phase (how much of a wave's cycle has been completed relative to a fixed point).

Tokyo Electric Power Company came under fire for underestimating the risk of a tsunami and building a seawall that was less than half the height of the wave that hit its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and caused multiple meltdowns and massive radiation leaks.

By the standards of Iraq — where attacks occur daily, although at a much diminished rate compared with the height of the war — the wave of violence on Thursday was not extraordinary.

Moore whistled when she saw the height of the waves.

The non-dependence of the height of the waves on rate of rotation showed that all reactions are very fast.

They are drawn not just by the height of the waves, but by their regularity: Big swells hit Nazaré for unusually long stretches of the year.

The Corps would also create dunes, rising at least twenty-two feet above sea level, which is the projected height of the waves in a hundred-year storm.