shear wave

English

Noun

shear wave (plural shear waves)

1. (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

  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