autowave

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Etymology

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From auto- +‎ wave.

Noun

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autowave (plural autowaves)

  1. A self-supporting non-linear wave in active media (i.e. one of those that provide distributed energy sources).
    • 2015 November 12, “Emergence of Asynchronous Local Clocks in Excitable Media”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In this work, we consider the case where each element is spontaneously excited at a fixed average rate and thereby initiates a new autowave.