undulationist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
undulation + -ist
Noun[edit]
undulationist (plural undulationists)
- (archaic) One who believes that light is a wave.
- 1833, William Whewell, Address Delivered in the Senate-House at Cambridge:
- the undulationist will conceive that his opinions have gained no small accession of evidence by this exemplification of what they will account for
References[edit]
“undulationist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.