waveform

noun

wave·form ˈwāv-ˌfȯrm

: a usually graphic representation of the shape of a wave that indicates its characteristics (such as frequency and amplitude)

called also waveshape

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Headlining the first of two nights at the Kia Forum going into the weekend, Musgraves played to a full house in Inglewood but, more importantly, to a house that valued being on her wavelength because there’s no one else in pop creating this exact waveform. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2024 The main one at the bottom shows image frame previews and audio waveforms, while the solid blue one at the top is useful for navigation. —

PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024 Certainly, there are clues: music and speech waveforms have distinct pitches (tones sounding high or low), timbres (qualities of sound), phonemes (speech sound units) and melodies. —

Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024 These hypothetical particles are even lighter than the tiniest WIMP and could possibly be detected via oscillations in their waveforms. —

Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for waveform