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Wavefront vs Curvature - What's the difference?

wavefront | curvature |

As nouns the difference between wavefront and curvature

is that wavefront is (physics) an imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase while curvature is the shape of something curved.

wavefront

English

(wikipedia wavefront)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase.

    • curvature

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The shape of something curved.
  • (mathematics) The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
  • The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.