Wavefront vs. Wavelength — What's the Difference?

In physics, the wavefront of a time-varying wave field is the set (locus) of all points having the same phase. The term is generally meaningful only for fields that, at each point, vary sinusoidally in time with a single temporal frequency (otherwise the phase is not well defined).

In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. It is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same phase on the wave, such as two adjacent crests, troughs, or zero crossings, and is a characteristic of both traveling waves and standing waves, as well as other spatial wave patterns.

The continuous line or surface including all the points in space reached by a wave or vibration at the same instant as it travels through a medium.

The distance between one peak of a wave to the next corresponding peak, or between any two adjacent corresponding points, defined as the speed of a wave divided by its frequency.

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

(physics) The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency.

(physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium

(figurative) A person's attitude and way of thinking as compared to another person's.

The distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave

A shared orientation leading to mutual understanding;