Definitions for P-wave
p-wave

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1. P-wavenoun

   A longitudinal compressional wave produced by an earthquake.

2. Etymology: From primary + wave.

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1. p-wave

   A P wave (primary wave or pressure wave) is one of the two main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology. P waves travel faster than other seismic waves and hence are the first signal from an earthquake to arrive at any affected location or at a seismograph. P waves may be transmitted through gases, liquids, or solids.

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1. P-wave

   P-waves are a type of elastic wave, called seismic waves in seismology, that can travel through a continuum. The continuum is made up of gases, liquids, or solids, including the Earth. P-waves could be produced by earthquakes and recorded by seismographs. The name P-wave is often said to stand either for primary wave, as it has the highest velocity and is therefore the first to be recorded; or pressure wave, as it is formed from alternating compressions and rarefactions. In isotropic and homogeneous solids, the mode of propagation of a P-wave is always longitudinal; thus, the particles in the solid have vibrations along or parallel to the travel direction of the wave energy.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of P-wave in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of P-wave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of P-wave in a Sentence

1. The AP:

   Cold weather states are dominating the fresh wave of cases over the last seven days.

2. Dounia Bouzar:

   I tell parents that their children are going to make their way through this difficult moment :' Your child will save others.' I'm sure that their experience will help France in the fight against terror, we are [ part of ] a human chain, and we become a wave, crashing against these ISIS words :' We will win, because we love death more than you love life.' [ But ] WE will win, because life is stronger than death.

3. Amit Ray:

   Quantum mechanics tells us that every feeling is a collapse of some wave functions due to the interference of a matrix of attention functions.

4. Travis Lowe:

   I struggle to see the way that people can wave a banner of Christianity and still employ the language of violence, and even a lot of the imagery that I've seen used will reference Jesus as being a lion, a lion of the tribe of Judah, but one of the things that I recognize in the New Testament is that every time that we expect Jesus to show up as a lion, he shows up as a lamb.

5. Eric Schadt:

   What I saw coming out of my Ph.D in 98 and 99 was this wave of technologies that would enable us to take way better snapshots.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/P-Wave
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Wave
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=P-wave