Sentence examples for principal wave from inspiring English sources
However, the amplitude (that is, the height of disturbance) at the water surface does not exceed a few metres in deep water, and the principal wavelength may be on the order of hundreds of kilometres; correspondingly, the principal wave period that is, the time interval between arrival of successive crests may be on the order of tens of minutes.
At the nearest station (MYG003), we observed two principal wave packets at ca. 50 and 120 s, which are confirmed in the snapshots at 60 and 120 s.
One involves the use of first order Fourier coefficients (mean wave direction) while the other uses second order Fourier coefficients (principal wave direction).
Study shows that at all locations, the mean and principal wave directions for frequencies ranging from 0.07 to 0.25 Hz (±0.5 times peak frequency) co-vary with a correlation coefficient of 0.99 but at lower and higher frequencies, difference between the parameters is large.
Public-sector reform occurred in two principal waves.
Wilson High school principal waves rainbow flag as hundreds rally against anti gay Westboro Baptist church pic.twitter.com/QxNk5BE4Th.
In "The Story of Marie and Julien" (Koch Lorber Films), from 2003, Jacques Rivette — a principal New Wave filmmaker and a crucial early advocate of Hitchcock — uses austerely classical methods to turn a story of crime and erotic obsession into a web of otherworldly mystery.
The other principal surface waves are called Rayleigh waves after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh, who first mathematically demonstrated their existence.
One bookish-looking man ran up and begged me to save him from the secret police; the man he pointed to, a school principal, laughed, waved a hand and walked away.
Derek Jeter had already dumped a bottle of Champagne down Steinbrenner's back and started to open another bottle for a second shower, but the principal owner waved him off.
The design extreme values of principal global wave-induced load components and their combinations in irregular seaways are predicted using a cross-spectral method together with short-term and long-term statistical formulations.
