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Big Water Bay opens to the public Friday, along with the Coastal Curl wave simulator that provides a stationary wave for board sports.
—Lawrence Specker | , al, 22 Mar. 2023
Unlike the lagoon, surfers in the pool do not move along the water with the wave, but instead ride a stationary wave.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2022
Ever more baffling is the fact that the stationary waves are absent in the middle and lower cloud levels of Venus, not appearing until roughly 50 km above the surface (164,000 feet).
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
These mysterious stationary waves were modeled in 3D using VIRTIS data as well as radio data from the Venus Radio Science experiment (VeRa) on Venus Express.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
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First Known Use
1833, in the meaning defined above
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“Stationary wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stationary%20wave. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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