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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: wavefront
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Definition: an equiphase surface common to all the components of the vectors of an electromagnetic field, when such a surface exists

NOTE – A wavefront is orthogonal at each point to the real part of the wave vector relative to this point.


Publication date:1995-09
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