Usually means: Wave maintaining shape while traveling.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. solitary wave: Merriam-Webster
  2. solitary wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. solitary wave: Vocabulary.com
  4. solitary wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. solitary wave: Dictionary.com
  6. Solitary wave (water waves), Solitary wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. solitary wave: Rhymezone
  8. solitary wave: FreeDictionary.org
  9. solitary wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. solitary wave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. solitary wave: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solitary wave: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. solitary wave: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See solitary_waves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (solitary wave)

noun:  (physics) A self-reinforcing pulse or travelling wave caused by any non-linear effect (found in many physical systems).


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