undulatory
Example Sentences
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A rush of energy follows the introspective opening, as more dancers arrive, joining together in full-bodied, undulatory movement that integrates the fast-paced, stamping footwork of Tswana.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
This result seemed to favour the undulatory theory; but the objection urged by Newton that rays of light do not bend round obstacles, like waves of sound, still held its ground.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
Some of the phenomena of radiation can be explained only by the emission theory, and others by the undulatory theory of light.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
It is a self-recording instrument, composed of two distinct portions—one for record of horizontal, or rather of what are called undulatory shocks; the other for vertical shocks.
From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Luigi Palmieri
The undulatory theory of light, which maintains that light consists of waves transmitted through an ether, which pervades all space and all matter, owes its origin to Hooke and Huyghens.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
