unduˈlationist
[f. prec. + -ist.]
One who holds the undulatory theory of light.
| 1834 Whewell in Todhunter Acc. Writ. (1876) II. 194 We undulationists do not conceive that we are in many points inferior to our adversaries. 1881 Nature XXIV. 382/1, I suppose that in the ordinary language of undulationists the velocity of light means..the velocity with which an individual wave travels. |