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What (who) is Wave - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
WAVE; Wave album; Wave (album); Wave (song); Wave (character); Wave (comics)
wave
![Animation showing the effect of a cross-polarized gravitational wave on a ring of [[test particles]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GravitationalWave CrossPolarization.gif?width=200 "Animation showing the effect of a cross-polarized gravitational wave on a ring of [[test particles]]")
![nodes]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Standing wave.gif?width=200 "nodes]]")
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![sawtooth]] waveforms.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Waveforms.svg?width=200 "sawtooth]] waveforms.")
![fundamental]] mode and the first 5 [[overtone]]s.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Standing waves on a string.gif?width=200 "fundamental]] mode and the first 5 [[overtone]]s.")
![standing wave on a disk]]; this is the fundamental mode.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drum vibration mode01.gif?width=200 "standing wave on a disk]]; this is the fundamental mode.")
![standing wave on a disk]] with two nodal lines crossing at the center; this is an overtone.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drum vibration mode21.gif?width=200 "standing wave on a disk]] with two nodal lines crossing at the center; this is an overtone.")
REPEATED OSCILLATION ABOUT A STABLE EQUILIBRIUM
Wave Motion; Undulatory Theory; Traveling Wave; Traveling wave; Waving; Wave (physics); Wave (the earth sciences); Wave propagation; Wave motion; Wave motion in fluids; Wave motion in liquids; Travelling wave; Periodic wave; Progressive wave; Traveling waves; Wave propagation velocity; Speed of a wave; Waves (physics); Signal propagation; Wave-like system; Wave field
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n.
moving ridge on the surface of water
1) a high, tall; mountainous wave
2) a tidal wave
3) waves break (on the rocks); crest
upsurge
4) a crime wave
physical disturbance that is transmitted in the propagation of sound or light
5) light; radio; sound; transverse waves
6) long; medium; short waves
brain rhythm
7) an alpha; brain wave
period of weather
8) a cold; heat wave
reaction
9) a shock wave
waviness of the hair
10) a permanent wave
USAGE NOTE: In colloq. BE, a brainwave can also mean a 'sudden bright idea', which in AE is a brainstorm. In colloq. BE, a brainstorm is a 'sudden mental aberration'. However, the verb to brainstorm (as in a brainstorming session) is now CE.
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v.
1) (A) wave goodbye to them; or: wave them goodbye
2) (D; intr., tr.) to wave at, to (wave to them; she waved her arm at me)
WAVE
REPEATED OSCILLATION ABOUT A STABLE EQUILIBRIUM
Wave Motion; Undulatory Theory; Traveling Wave; Traveling wave; Waving; Wave (physics); Wave (the earth sciences); Wave propagation; Wave motion; Wave motion in fluids; Wave motion in liquids; Travelling wave; Periodic wave; Progressive wave; Traveling waves; Wave propagation velocity; Speed of a wave; Waves (physics); Signal propagation; Wave-like system; Wave field
<language, robotics> A robotics language.
["WAVE: A Model-Based Language for Manipulator Control",
R.P. Paul, Ind Robot 4(1):10-17, 1979 ].
(1996-09-08)
wave
REPEATED OSCILLATION ABOUT A STABLE EQUILIBRIUM
Wave Motion; Undulatory Theory; Traveling Wave; Traveling wave; Waving; Wave (physics); Wave (the earth sciences); Wave propagation; Wave motion; Wave motion in fluids; Wave motion in liquids; Travelling wave; Periodic wave; Progressive wave; Traveling waves; Wave propagation velocity; Speed of a wave; Waves (physics); Signal propagation; Wave-like system; Wave field
(waves, waving, waved)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you wave or wave your hand, you move your hand from side to side in the air, usually in order to say hello or goodbye to someone.
He waved at the waiter, who rushed to the table...
He grinned, waved, and said, 'Hi!'...
Elaine turned and waved her hand lazily and left.
VERB: V to/at n, V, V n, also V n prep
•
Wave is also a noun.
Steve stopped him with a wave of the hand...
Paddy spotted Mary Ann and gave her a cheery wave.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
If you wave someone away or wave them on, you make a movement with your hand to indicate that they should move in a particular direction.
Leshka waved him away with a show of irritation...
VERB: V n adv/prep
3.
If you wave something, you hold it up and move it rapidly from side to side.
Hospital staff were outside to welcome him, waving flags and applauding...
She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.
VERB: V n, V n adv/prep
• -waving
Hundreds of banner-waving demonstrators took to the streets.
...a flag-waving crowd.
COMB in ADJ
• -waving
There will be marching bands and plenty of flag-waving.
COMB in N-UNCOUNT
4.
If something waves, it moves gently from side to side or up and down.
...grass and flowers waving in the wind.
= sway
VERB: V
5.
A wave is a raised mass of water on the surface of water, especially the sea, which is caused by the wind or by tides making the surface of the water rise and fall.
...the sound of the waves breaking on the shore.
N-COUNT
6.
If someone's hair has waves, it curves slightly instead of being straight.
N-COUNT
7.
A wave is a sudden increase in heat or energy that spreads out from an earthquake or explosion.
The shock waves of the earthquake were felt in Teheran...
N-COUNT: with supp
8.
Waves are the form in which things such as sound, light, and radio signals travel.
Sound waves, light waves, and radio waves have a certain frequency, or number of waves per second.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft supp N
9.
If you refer to a wave of a particular feeling, you mean that it increases quickly and becomes very intense, and then often decreases again.
She felt a wave of panic, but forced herself to leave the room calmly...
N-COUNT: usu N of n
10.
A wave is a sudden increase in a particular activity or type of behaviour, especially an undesirable or unpleasant one.
...the current wave of violence.
...an even newer crime wave.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
11.
Wikipedia
Wave (disambiguation)
A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space.
Wave or waves may also refer to:
Examples of use of Wave
1. In turn, it sends an elastic wave (a bit like a sound wave) through the liver.
2. Israeli artillery fired wave after wave of shells over the border in response.
3. Wave after wave of Taliban arriving on pick–ups to join the fight were mown down.
4. This P wave is followed by a secondary wave, or S wave, that shears the ground back and forth and up and down.
5. Buoy measurements do not report time series of surface wave elevations, and hence, maximum individual wave heights can only be statistically postulated from spectrum–derived significant wave heights.