The shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time

Usage examples of waveform.

The chords she summoned were thick, ferrous, gritty with the crunch of overdriven guitar, fluid with pulsing waveforms.

It pinged out again with the shark tooth wave pattern and went silent, hearing the return waveform and perceiving the target in three dimensions.

It vibrated inside him and overwhelmed the air around himhorrible, of coursemuch more than meaningless noise, her madness in its waveforms and repetitions occupying his body, madness measured in cycles per second, her willful disintegration taking over his mind.

Struggling with sounds that began only as unheard ideas, she shifted waveforms, altered decay and attack rates, searched for and slowly found what she needed, what Christa needed.

But the next thing he said came out of nowhere or out of the waveforms of another occasion.

Ghosts in probability-space, waveforms strung taut from waypoint to waypoint, snapshot to snapshot.

Along the back of the bench stood a line of stacked waveform analyzers, synthesizers, power supplies, and other instruments studded with buttons and covered in screens, and interconnected by unraveled rainbows of tangled wire.

While dittoing, we amplify these myriad states, pressing the combined waveform into a nearby matrix.

Feeling as if there’s going to be some nuclear reaction, a morphing meltdown, if I don’t shed the quantum waveform of Athena quickly, I speak fast.

This is why, of course, the Network’s ships trapped in q-space—that otherwhere of superpositions and spindrift possibilities—wield waveform interrupters, and why, though I was Rachel’s friend, I killed her across several timelines.

I choose his tonal pattern for maximum auditory acceptance, varying the waveform structure so as not to duplicate his voice exactly, and attempt to speak.