The same happened to Young with his theory of the undulation of light.
To him we owe the epoch-making discovery of the undulation of light, while Newton had held light to be a matter of emission.
Who knows but if our instruments were delicate enough we might detect an undulation in the crust of the earth?
Several pretty large logs may still be seen lying on the bottom, where, owing to the undulation of the surface, they look like huge water snakes in motion.
From the undulation or bubbling of water stirred by an oak branch, or magic wand, they foretold events that were to come.
Notwithstanding this supply of food, the hunters could not resist the temptation to give chase to a herd of about nine buffaloes that suddenly came into view as they overtopped an undulation in the plain.
There was a slight undulation in the ground, however, which enabled him to advance about fifty yards farther, by means of lying down quite flat and working himself forward like a serpent.
It was from beneath the undulation that it proceeded.
Rapidly bending down and back again, with the undulation of a serpent, he struck Phelem-ghe-Madone in the sternum.
This revival of the old theory of undulation met at first with violent opposition from many of the greatest scientific minds of the day.
Young further claimed that correct explanations could be made only by the theory of waves of undulation of an etherial medium diffused through space, and presented numerous experimental evidences in favor of this view.
Let's stop," said Phra, on seeing that theundulation in the green wall on their left kept on at about the same rate.
This was followed by a sharp squeal, but the undulation of the grass did not cease, and from their position high up the two lads caught sight from time to time of the blackish-brown backs of three or four good-sized pigs.
The throw of the fault then changes considerably within little more than half a mile, from 18 feet to zero and again to 20 feet, the undulation so formed producing a large pool (h) entirely on the upthrow side of the fault.
The pool is simply due to the reversal of the natural slope of the river-bed, caused by the formation of a roll or undulation in the ground on the upthrow side of the fault.
Troops which were stationed near the white smoke-stack suddenly spurred their horses forward and dashed northward to seek safety behind a long undulation in the ground.
When the bandit believed himself in safety, at least for the moment, he began watching most carefully the undulation of the grass, which incessantly drew nearer to him.
They were not drawn up on the beach, but secured stem and stern with ropes, and floated in the gentle undulation of the tide.
Wat could feel as he swam the slow, regular pulse-beat of the outer ocean-swell which passed up beneath him, and which at each undulation heaved him some way towards the roof.
But Turner had to add to such general complexity the expression of a more than ordinary undulationin the beds of the St. Gothard gneiss.
For these two figures are selected from crystallines whose beds are remarkably straight; in the greater number the undulation becomes far more violent, and, in many, passes into absolute contortion.
Every undulation of her figure, as she stepped lightly forward flowed to the surface.
After another while the leaks along the ridge need plastering: mortar is laid on to stay the inroad of wet, adding a dull white and forming a rough, uncertain undulation along the general drooping curve.
It shows at the top the same degree of irregularity and undulation as a sapling; and is transformed gradually into straightness lower down (see Fig.
It was my intention to cross rapidly the first undulation where my men would for a few minutes be out of view of the enemy, and there to conceal them in a deserted village which I had noticed during our advance.
The general formula gives the position of the maxima and minima for any distances whatever of the luminous point from the screen, and from the screen to the micrometer, when the length of the undulation of the light employed is known.
In this manner a derivative undulation will be produced by the union of these agitations, and the principle of Huygens may be truly applied to such a propagation.
For twenty or thirty miles round Canton, and as far as the eye can reach on each side of the river on which that city stands, the general face of the country appears nearly a level plain, with but little undulation of surface.
In the young state, the undulation of the edge is not very distinct; but this character increases with age, so that in the young state, it appears like a totally different species from the adult.
But we notice a distinct undulationin the ice trenches alongside, caused probably by some propagated swell.
At one o'clock it had become a chasm eight feet in width; and as it continued to widen, we observed a distinct undulation of the water about its edges.
The floating scum of rubbish advances and recedes with a regularity that can only be due to some equable undulation from without to the north.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undulation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
