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   Wave

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   verb

   • 1. move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal: "he waved to me from the train" Similar gesturegesticulatesignalsignbeckonindicatemotionnodbid
   • ▪ move (one's hand or arm, or something held in one's hand) to and fro: "he waved a sheaf of papers in the air" Similar move to and fromove up and downwagwaggleswingshakeswishsweepswipebrandishflourishflauntwieldflickflutter
   • ▪ convey (a greeting or other message) by moving one's hand or something held in it to and fro: "we waved our farewells"
   • ▪ instruct (someone) to move in a particular direction by moving one's hand: "he waved her back"
   • 2. move to and fro with a swaying or undulating motion while remaining fixed to one point: "the flag waved in the wind" Similar rippleflutterundulatestirflapswayswingwaftshakequiveroscillatemoveblow
   • 3. style (hair) so that it curls slightly: "her hair had been carefully waved for the evening"
   • ▪ (of hair) grow with a slight curl: "she marveled at the blueness of his eyes, how straight his nose was, the way his hair waved" Similar curlkinkcoilundulatecrimpfrizzfrizzle

   noun

   • 1. a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore: "he was swept out to sea by a freak wave" Similar breakerbillowrollercomberripplewhite horsewhite capswellsurffrothbomborainformal:boomerkahuna
   • ▪ a ridge of water between two depressions in open water: "gulls and cormorants bobbed on the waves"
   • ▪ a shape seen as comparable to a breaking wave: "a wave of treetops stretched to the horizon"
   • ▪ an effect resembling a moving wave produced by successive sections of the crowd in a stadium standing up, raising their arms, lowering them, and sitting down again.
   • ▪ the sea. literary
   • 2. a sudden occurrence of or increase in a specified phenomenon, feeling, or emotion: "its remarkable how one small gesture can create a wave of kindness" Similar flowrushsurgefloodstreamswelltidedelugetorrentspatebillowsurgerushripplespasmthrillfrissonshivertinglestabdartupsurgewelling upoutbreakrashfeeling
   • 3. a gesture or signal made by moving one's hand to and fro: "he gave a little wave and walked off" Similar gesturegesticulationhand movementsignalsignmotionindication
   • 4. a slightly curling lock of hair: "his hair was drying in unruly waves" Similar curlkinkcorkscrewcrimptwisttwirlringletfrizzcoilloopundulation
   • ▪ a tendency to curl in a person's hair: "her hair has a slight natural wave" Similar curlkinkcorkscrewcrimptwisttwirlringletfrizzcoilloopundulation
   • 5. a periodic disturbance of the particles of a substance which may be propagated without net movement of the particles, such as in the passage of undulating motion, heat, or sound. Similar ripplevibrationoscillationundulation
   • ▪ a single curve in the course of a wave.
   • ▪ a variation of an electromagnetic field in the propagation of light or other radiation through a medium or vacuum.

   Word Origin Old Englishwafian (verb), from the Germanic base of waver; the noun by alteration (influenced by the verb) of Middle English wawe ‘(sea) wave’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. waveless adjective
   • 2. wave-like adjective

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   What are the different types of waves?

   • Waves come in two kinds, longitudinal and transverse. Transverse waves are like those on water, with the surface going up and down, and longitudinal waves are like of those of sound, consisting of alternating compressions and rarefactions in a medium. The high point of a transverse wave is a called the crest, and the low point is called the trough.

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   What are the properties of waves?

   • A wave is a disturbance in a medium that carries energy without a net movement of particles. It may take the form of elastic deformation, a variation of pressure, electric or magnetic intensity, electric potential, or temperature. Transfers energy. Usually involves a periodic, repetitive movement.

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   What is the difference between a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave?

   • In physics, a transverse wave is a wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of the wave's advance. This is in contrast to a longitudinal wave which travels parallel to the direction of its oscillations. Water waves are an example of transverse wave.

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   How does the propagation of a wave through a medium depend on the medium’s properties?

   • Although, not all waves require a medium for their propagation. For example, light waves can travel through a vacuum. A wave is a form of disturbance that travels through a material medium due to the repeated motion of the particles of the medium about their mean positions without any actual transportation of matter.

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   Wave definition: a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.. See examples of WAVE used in a sentence.

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   In physics, mathematics, engineering, and related fields, a wave is a propagating dynamic disturbance (change from equilibrium) of one or more quantities. Periodic waves oscillate repeatedly about an equilibrium (resting) value at some frequency.

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   Definitions of wave. noun. (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth. synonyms: undulation. see more. noun. an undulating curve. synonyms: undulation. see more. noun. one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) synonyms: moving ridge. see more. noun.

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