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Vinony

waveform

noun

  1. the shape and form of a signal such as a wave moving in a physical medium or an abstract representation
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From wave + form.

  1. The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
  2. The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.