undulationist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

undulation +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

undulationist (plural undulationists)

  1. (archaic) One who believes that light is a wave.
    • 1833, William Whewell, Address Delivered in the Senate-House at Cambridge:
      the undulationist will conceive that his opinions have gained no small accession of evidence by this exemplification of what they will account for

References[edit]

“undulationist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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