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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of seismic surface wave that causes rock particles to move with a side-to-side motion perpendicular to the direction of an earthquake's main propagation. Love waves travel faster than Rayleigh waves.
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- noun geology A
seismic surface shock wave, which is also known as aQ-wave , with a lateral horizontal movementperpendicular to the direction ofpropagation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Augustus Edward Hough Love, (1863–1940), British mathematician.]
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