Western Disturbance — is the term used in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal to describe an extratropical storm that brings sudden winter rain and snow to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent. This is a non monsoonal precipitation pattern driven by… … Wikipedia
light — light1 lightful, adj. lightfully, adv. /luyt/, n., adj., lighter, lightest, v., lighted or lit, lighting. n. 1. something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light. 2. Physics … Universalium
fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter. Cf. fluid dynamics. [1940 45] * * * Study of the effects of forces and energy on liquids and gases. One branch of the field, hydrostatics, deals with fluids at… … Universalium
wave motion — ▪ physics propagation of disturbances that is, deviations from a state of rest or equilibrium from place to place in a regular and organized way. Most familiar are surface waves on water, but both sound and light travel as wavelike… … Universalium
Ecological Restoration — ▪ 1999 by Stephanie Mills Ecological restoration (the rapidly developing practice of healing damaged lands and waters) is grounded in the emerging scientific discipline of restoration ecology. The science and the practice are mutually… … Universalium
Wave packet — In physics, a wave packet is an envelope or packet containing an arbitrary number of wave forms. In quantum mechanics the wave packet is ascribed a special significance: it is interpreted to be a probability wave describing the probability that a … Wikipedia
malformation — /mal fawr may sheuhn, feuhr /, n. faulty or anomalous formation or structure, esp. in a living body: malformation of the teeth. [1790 1800; MAL + FORMATION] * * * ▪ biology Introduction in biology, irregular or abnormal structural… … Universalium
Wave equation — Not to be confused with Wave function. The wave equation is an important second order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves – as they occur in physics – such as sound waves, light waves and water waves. It arises in… … Wikipedia
solitary wave — Math., Physics. a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves. * * * … Universalium
local perturbation — vietinis trikdys statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. local perturbation; localized disturbance vok. lokale Störung, f rus. местное возмущение, n pranc. perturbation locale, f … Fizikos terminų žodynas