How to Use waveform in a Sentence

waveform

noun

• 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
• Even to the untrained eye, Apple's version stands out for the extra space within the waveform's boundaries—and this was audible to the ear, too.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• 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
• This is different from chips that handle analog waveforms, like the chips that manage radio signals or power electronics.
  — Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 23 Aug. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024