propagation vs wave front

propagation and wave front both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
propagation	Yes	No	No	No
wave front	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wave front is a hyponym of propagation; that is, wave front is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than propagation:

propagation: the movement of a wave through a medium
wave front: all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates

Other hyponyms of propagation include Doppler effect, Doppler shift, red shift, redshift.

propagation (noun)	wave front (noun)
the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production	(physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium
the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions	all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates
the movement of a wave through a medium

propagation vs wave front

propagation and wave front both are nouns.

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