undulationist
English
editEtymology
editFrom undulation + -ist.
Noun
editundulationist (plural undulationists)
- (archaic) One who believes that light is a wave.
- 1833, William Whewell, Address Delivered in the Senate-House at Cambridge:
- the undulationist will conceive that his opinions have gained no small accession of evidence by this exemplification of what they will account for
References
edit“undulationist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.