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Definition of Air wave
1. Noun. A sound wave that is transmitted via air.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Wave
Literary usage of Air wave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Although we do not find in the report any barometric observation in the neighborhood
of the volcano during the passage of this great air-wave, we have the ..."
2. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"... a practical application of the corpuscular theory to a few problems which have
been always looked upon as conclusive proof of the air-wave hypothesis. ..."
3. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1892)
"The wave-front of the air-wave must have contained an enormous energy, ...
I have, as yet, seen no notice of barometric observations of the air-wave in San ..."
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