Huygens' principle
noun
Huy·gens' principle
variants
or less commonly Huyghens' principle
ˈ⸗gənz(ə̇z)-
: a principle in physics: every point of an advancing wave front is a new center of disturbance from which emanate independent wavelets whose envelope constitutes a new wave front at each successive stage of the process
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