Wave 02
Wave 02 : (n.) (1-a) (Physics) A movement up and down or back and forth. Syn: Undulation. Twenty Types: See: Gravitation Wave, Gravity Wave; Sine Wave; Oscillation, Vibration; Fluctuation; Seiche; Standing Wave, Stationary Wave; Traveling Wave, Travelling Wave; Acoustic Wave, Sound Wave; Wave Form, Wave Shape, Waveform; Blast Wave, Shock Wave; Impulse, Pulsation, Pulse, Pulsing; Flap, Flapping, Flutter, Fluttering; Ripple; Solitary Wave, Soliton, Soliton Wave; Transient; Sonic Boom; Beat; Resonance; Sympathetic Vibration. Type of: Motion, Movement: natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. (1-b) An undulating curve. Syn: Undulation. Types: Sine Curve, Sinusoid: The curve of y=sin x. Type of: Curve, Curved Shape: The trace of a point whose direction of motion changes. (1-c) One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). Syn: Moving Ridge. Fourteen Types: Breaker, Breakers, Surf; Backwash, Wake; Swash; Riffle, Ripple, Rippling, Wavelet; Crestless Wave, Swell; Lift, Rise; Billow, Surge; Tidal Wave; Tidal Wave; Tsunami; Roll, Roller, Rolling Wave; Comber; White Horse, Whitecap; Ground Swell, Heavy Swell. Type of: Motion, Movement: A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something. (1-d) The act of signaling by a movement of the hand. Syn: Wafture, Waving. Types: Brandish, Flourish: The act of waving. Type of: Gesture, Motion: The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals. (v.) (1-a) Move or swing back and forth. Syn: Brandish, Flourish. Types: Wigwag: Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code. Type of: Displace, Move: Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense. (1-b) Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion. Syn: Flap, Roll, Undulate. Types: Luff: Flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides. Type of: Move: Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion. (1-c) Signal with the hands or nod. Syn: Beckon. Type of: Gesticulate, Gesture, Motion: Show, express or direct through movement. (v.) (2-a) Set waves in. Type of: Arrange, Coif, Coiffe, Coiffure, Do, Dress, Set: Arrange attractively. (2-b) Twist or roll into coils or ringlets. Syn: Curl. Types: Crape, Crimp, Frizz, Frizzle, Kink, Kink Up: Curl tightly. Type of: Twist: Turn in the opposite direction. (n.) (3) A movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon. Type of: Motility, Motion, Move, Movement: A change of position that does not entail a change of location. Types: (1) Cold Wave: A wave of unusually cold weather. (2) Heat Wave: A wave of unusually hot weather. Type of: Atmospheric Condition, Conditions, Weather, Weather Condition: The atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
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