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shear wave

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English

Noun

shear wave (plural shear waves)

(physics) A wave that changes the medium through which it travels to change its shape but not its volume or density.

Synonyms

S wave, secondary wave

Hypernyms

wave

Translations

shear wave

Arabic: مَوْجَة S f (mawja(t) S)
Chinese:
simplified: S波 (áise-bō)

traditional: S簸

Wu: S波
German: S-Welle f
Korean: S파 (Spa)
Persian: موج اس
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: С талас

Latin: [Term?]
Turkish: S dalgası (tr)

Further reading

shear wave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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