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The number of oscillations that a wave completes per unit of time in called its _______.
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The number of oscillations that a wave completes per unit of time in called its _______.

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The number of oscillations that a wave completes per unit of time is called "frequency".
Frequency represents in fact how many complete cycles of the wave are done in a single unit of time. It can be written also as

f= (Ncycles)/(time)
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