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

But in rare states of matter, heat can behave as a wave, moving back and forth somewhat like a sound wave that bounces from one end of a room to the other.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 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

But the wave inside a tube, since it is a sound wave already, is a longitudinal wave; the waves do not go from side to side in the tube.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones