Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A seismic wave that travels relatively quickly through the earth, causing the rocks it passes through to change shape, and the particles of the rocks to vibrate at right angles to the direction of wave propagation. S-waves can travel through solids but not through liquids or gases.
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- noun geology, seismology A
transverse ,shear wave , such as that produced by anearthquake . Movement istransverse to the direction ofpropagation and is abody wave .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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MYERS: We talked a little bit earlier about how the S-wave, how the side-to-side motion can really be devastating to these buildings that don't have a lot of support and are not certainly made to our California regulations.
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That comes early in the earthquake, and then one that comes in like this, which is called an S-wave.
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Would a strike slip cause more of the S-wave or would the thrust cause more of that kind of damage?
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And what is -- what is a P-wave and what is an S-wave?
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What happens with an S-wave, it is very difficult for a building to stay standing up in an S-wave because the building does this.
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And the slipping causes two types of waves, an S-wave and a P-wave, and after the break, Wolf, we'll talk about how both of those could affect the people there of Haiti.
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The secondary wave, the S-wave, looks literally like an S.
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It's a word that we use to describe when a P-wave and then an S-wave come together after the shock.
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In an intensive and most enjoyable collaboration, we succeeded in obtaining a complete solution for S-wave scattering by a spherical potential.
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It has an S-wave in it with the buoyancy down near the seabed.
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