Definition of Antinode

1. Noun. (physics) the point of maximum displacement in a periodic system.

Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Generic synonyms: Point
Antonyms: Node

Definition of Antinode

1. Noun. (physics) A region of maximum amplitude situated between adjacent nodes of a vibrating body, such as a string ¹

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Definition of Antinode

1. a region between adjacent nodes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antinode

anting
anting-anting
anting-antings
antings
antiniad
antinial
antinicotine
antinicotinic
antinicotinics
antinion
antinobilism
antinociception
antinociceptive
antinociceptives
antinodal
antinode (current term)
antinodes
antinoise
antinomasia
antinome
antinomes
antinomian
antinomianism
antinomianisms
antinomians
antinomic
antinomical
antinomically
antinomies
antinomist

Literary usage of Antinode

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1903)
"As the end of the rod is moved farther and farther away from the antinode of the air train the motion of the air train at the end of the rod continues to ..."

2. Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with by Heinrich Hertz (1893)
"39, but move the hoop from the node b b' towards the antinode of the oscillation, the repulsion rapidly diminishes; at a certain distance it becomes zero, ..."

3. An Elementary Manual of Radiotelegraphy and Radiotelephony for Students and by John Ambrose Fleming (1916)
"The current therefore increases gradually from the node to the antinode, and is not the same at all points on the antenna. Its amplitude at any point may ..."

4. College Physics by John Oren Reed, Karl Eugen Guther (1911)
"In all cases, the distance from node to node, or from antinode to antinode, is X/2, for the medium in question. From node to antinode is X/4. ..."

5. Electric Waves: An Advanced Treatise on Alternating-current Theory by William Suddards Franklin (1909)
"... the violence of the oscillations will be very voltage node voltage antinode voltage node closed current antinode closed 1 voltage distribution (second ..."

6. Physics for High School Students by Henry Smith Carhart, Horatio Nelson Chute (1907)
"A node is a place of least motion and greatest change of density; an antinode is a place of greatest motion and least change of density. ..."

7. Vibratory Motion and Sound by Joseph David Everett (1882)
"The pressure at an antinode is the same as that of the undisturbed air ; hence, if a hole be made in the side of the pipe at an antinode, there will be no ..."

8. Advanced Theory of Electricity and Magnetism: A Textbook for Colleges and by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1919)
"... by the ordinates of one of the dotted curves in the lower half of the figure. voltage node voltage antinode voltage node voltage antinode -- — -* . ..."

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