sound wave
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It has been explained to BBC Sport that the technology used in Australia has a two-frame gap between the pictures and the sound wave.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
As such, one could say that life on Earth as we know it in some way originated from a sound wave.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025
The researchers then placed a sound wave generator on each side of the device and slanted them so that sound waves travel through the underlying platform to enter the droplet.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024
“The sound wave, because it’s so big, can’t see fine detail,” says David Jourdan, an engineer whose company Nauticos has led three expeditions in search of Earhart.
From National Geographic • Jan. 30, 2024
Those molecules in turn disturb other nearby molecules out of their normal patterns of random motion, so that the disturbance itself becomes a thing that moves through the air — a sound wave.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
