| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Elliptically polarized | Electrical Engineering | A term pertaining to a wave or field vector exhibiting elliptical polarization. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Elliptically polarized sound wave | Aerospace | A transverse wave in an elastic medium in which the displacement vector at any point rotates about the point and has a magnitude which varies as the radius vector of an ellipse. An elliptically polarized wave is equivalent to two superposed plane polarized waves of simple sinusoidal form in which the displacements lie in perpendicular planes and are 90 apart in phase. (references) | |
| Left-hand anti-clockwise elliptically polarized wave | Electrical Engineering | An elliptically or circularly polarised wave in which the electric vector in any fixed plane normal to the direction of propagation rotates with time in a left-hand or anti-clockwise direction, as seen by an observer looking in, i. e. not against, the direction of propagation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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