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wave - (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
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motion,
movement the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
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natural philosophy,
physics the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"
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gravitation wave,
gravity wave (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light
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sine wave a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve
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oscillation,
vibration (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean
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fluctuation the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"
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seiche a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances
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standing wave,
stationary wave a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time
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traveling wave,
travelling wave a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave
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acoustic wave,
sound wave (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound
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waveform,
wave form,
wave shape the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time
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blast wave,
shock wave a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity; "the explosion created a shock wave"
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impulse,
pulsation,
pulse,
pulsing the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over"
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flap,
flapping,
flutter,
fluttering any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"
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wave - one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
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motion,
movement the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"
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breaker,
breakers,
surf a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
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backwash,
wake a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"
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swash the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach"
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riffle,
ripple,
rippling,
wavelet shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
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crestless wave,
swell a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
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lift,
rise the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
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billow,
surge a large sea wave
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tidal wave a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun
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tidal wave a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun
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tsunami a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes"
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roll,
roller,
rolling wave the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
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comber a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool
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whitecap,
white horse a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white
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wave - a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
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coif,
coiffure,
hairdo,
hairstyle,
hair style a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law
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finger wave a wave made with the fingers
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perm,
permanent,
permanent wave a city in the European part of Russia
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wave - the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
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waving,
wafture |
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gesture,
motion motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling
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brandish,
flourish (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
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wave - a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures); "a heat wave" |
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atmospheric condition,
conditions,
weather,
weather condition the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare; "hazardous working conditions"; "harsh living conditions"
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cold wave a wave of unusually cold weather
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heat wave a wave of unusually hot weather
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wave front (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium
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wave - a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves" |
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motility,
motion,
move,
movement ability to move spontaneously and independently
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Wave - a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch |
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reservist a member of a military reserve
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adult female,
woman an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
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wave - an undulating curve |
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undulation |
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curve,
curved shape a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
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sine curve,
sinusoid the curve of y=sin x
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wave - something that rises rapidly; "a wave of emotion swept over him"; "there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed"; "a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right" |
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rise the act of changing location in an upward direction
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| Verb |
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wave - set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair" |
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arrange,
coif,
coiffe,
coiffure,
do,
dress,
set arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
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marcel make a marcel in a woman's hair
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gauffer,
goffer make wavy with a heated goffering iron; "goffer the trim of the dress"
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perm give a permanent wave to; "She perms her hair"
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