How to Use waveform in a Sentence

waveform

noun
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  • When all is said and done, the Watch's screen shows your ECG waveform and includes a description of what that reading means.
    — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2018
  • These new sounds create a waveform that twists to a point like a screw — so the researchers called them tornillos, Spanish for screw.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 13 June 2018
  • On the right half of the screen, squiggly lines display waveforms that correspond to the functions being performed on the qubits.
    — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2019
  • There was the signal, and there was their prediction of what the waveform from the merger of two black holes would look like overlying it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2016
  • Even the soundtrack used has a palindromic audio waveform.
    — Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
  • This works by playing a sound through your speakers while a microphone measures the waveform.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • Extracting the waveform from a person’s fingertip was the easy part.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Traditional samplers at the time would loop the last waveform during the decay phase of the sound and this turned the piano sound into what sounded like an organ.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Next to that section is a box about the size of a desktop printer, which sends those waveforms as electrical pulses through wires and into the silver cylinder.
    — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2019
  • For example, the Podcasts app only shows cover art and a little waveform.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The name relates to the electrical waveforms produced by the heart on an electrocardiogram trace, which contort and writhe.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Smith explains that the tank has been rigged with sensors that convert the eel’s higher-frequency pulses into sound, a flashing LED light and waveforms on a screen.
    — Natalie Escobar, Smithsonian, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The suit was equipped with an oxygen hose and emblazoned with the album's logo—a stylized globe bisected by a sawtooth waveform (WWW.
    — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 28 Feb. 2018
  • These allowed operators to mimic the voltage waveform of a strong energy source with that of weak sources, like solar and wind farms.
    — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But Sethi's artistic interpretation of a waveform is all her own.
    — Bijan Hosseini, CNN, 10 June 2021
  • The researchers therefore dubbed the events hybrid-frequency waveform earthquakes (EHW).
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The intensity of the tremor damaged the seismometer that took the reading below, interrupting the waveform in the north–south direction.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Björk combines her cries of pain with the scrapes and bangs of waveform generators and dissonant string orchestrations.
    — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
  • The communiqué was a 40-gigabyte string of numbers describing the waveform of the telemetry data, interwoven with the alien message.
    — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
  • If the optical coupling of the coupler and bus is not carefully controlled, the light’s waveform can be distorted, potentially losing the signal — and the data.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Each token contains important information about a portion of the audio waveform compressed in a smaller amount of space.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Looking at the waveform that registered on seismometers from Tin City to Ketchikan, Gardine noticed its squiggle signature did not look like an earthquake.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • For those with more discerning power supply tastes, this UPS delivers square waveform power, not the more succulent pure sine waves that connoisseurs look for.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 9 Oct. 2018
  • When light interacts with certain objects, like crystals, its waveform changes and begins to oscillate with a unique signature.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
  • These components need a brain to tell them how to interact with a satellite, which meant Apple had to build a new communication stack to support the waveform and custom link and networking layers.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2022
  • A look at waveforms over time shows unintended distortion and squashed dynamics.
    — Rip Rowan, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2004
  • But zooming in on the waveform of an individual song syllable can reveal these fine acoustic details.
    — Adam Fishbein, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • The envelope is made up of slow fluctuations in the amplitude of the waveform, whereas the fine structure consists of the rapid fluctuations in frequency and amplitude within the waveform.
    — Adam Fishbein, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
  • Of critical importance, the Voyager records convey instructions on how to play them, such as how to affix the attached stylus, at what rate of rotation the record must be spun, and the proper waveform of signals generated by the record.
    — Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Aortic pressure waveform: ratio of sitting to supine position.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Apr. 2021

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