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Waves
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wave
wave (wv) verb
waved, waving, waves
verb, intransitive
1.To move freely back
and forth or up and down in the air, as branches in the wind.
2.To make a signal with
an up-and-down or back-and-forth movement of the hand or an
object held in the hand: waved as she drove by.
3.To have an undulating
or wavy form; curve or curl: Her hair waves naturally.
verb, transitive
1.To cause to move back
and forth or up and down, either once or repeatedly: She waved
a fan before her face.
2.a. To move or swing
as in giving a signal: He waved his hand. synonyms at
flourish. b. To signal or express by waving the hand or an
object held in the hand: We waved good-bye. c. To signal (a
person) to move in a specified direction: The police officer
waved the motorist into the right lane.
3.To arrange into
curves, curls, or undulations: wave one's hair.
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noun
1.a. A ridge or swell
moving through or along the surface of a large body of water. b. A small ridge
or swell moving across the
interface of two fluids and
dependent on surface tension.
2.Often waves . The
sea: vanished beneath the waves.
3.Something that
suggests the form and motion of a wave in the sea,
especially:. a. A moving curve or succession of curves in or
on a surface; an undulation: waves of wheat in the wind. b. A
curve or succession of curves, as in the hair. c. A curved
shape, outline, or pattern.
4.A movement up and
down or back and forth: a wave of the hand.
5.a. A surge or rush, as of sensation: a
wave of nausea; a wave of indignation. b. A sudden great rise,
as in activity or
intensity:
a wave of panic selling on the stock market. c. A rising trend
that involves large numbers of individuals: a wave of
conservatism. d. One of a succession of mass movements: the
first wave of settlers. e. A maneuver in which fans at a
sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising quickly in
sequence with arms upraised and then quickly sitting down
again in a continuous rolling motion.
6.A widespread,
persistent meteorological condition, especially of
temperature: a heat wave.
7.Physics. a. A
disturbance traveling through a medium by which energy is
transferred from one particle of the medium to another without
causing any permanent displacement of the medium itself. b. A
graphic representation of the variation of such a disturbance
with time. c. A
single cycle of such a disturbance.
[Middle English waven,
from Old English wafian.]
- waver noun
wave
wave (wv) noun
1. Any disturbance or
change that has an oscillatory,
periodic nature, for example, a
light or sound wave.
2. In electronics, the
time-amplitude profile of an electrical signal.
Wave Motion
Wave Motion, in physics, mechanism by which energy is moved from one place to another in mechanically generated waves. At any point along the path of the wave, a repeated displacement, or oscillation, occurs. The matter being displaced will be air molecules when sound travels through the air; water molecules in waves on the ocean; or parts of a rope. In each case the particles of matter oscillate around a neutral position, and only the energy moves continuously in one direction.
Types of Waves
Waves are classified
according to the direction of the particle displacements in
relation to the direction that the wave itself moves. If the
displacement and the wave move in the same direction, the wave
is longitudinal, resulting from repeated compressions
(coming together) and rarefactions (moving apart) of the
material that carries the wave. Sound waves are longitudinal.
If the displacement and the wave move at right angles to each
other, the wave is transverse. Ocean waves are transverse.
The wavelength of
transverse waves is the distance between two crests or
troughs. The wavelength of longitudinal waves is the distance
from compression
to compression or from rarefaction to rarefaction. The
frequency is the
number of displacements per second, and the velocity of the
wave, the speed at which it advances, is equal to the
wavelength times the frequency. The maximum displacement is
the amplitude of the wave.
Behavior
The velocity of a
mechanical wave depends on the elasticity and density of the
material in which it moves. When two waves meet, the resulting
displacement will be the sum of the displacements produced by
the individual waves. If the displacements are in the same
direction, the waves reinforce each other; and if the
displacements are in the opposite direction, the waves
counteract each other. This is known as interference.
Matter: Inorganic
matter: Stream: water in motion
wave (noun)
wave
wash, swash, backwash
ripple, cat's-paw,
furrow
swell, ground swell
billow, roller, comber,
beachcomber
breaker, surf, spume,
white horses, whitecap
tidal wave, tsunami,
rogue wave
bore
rip, riptide
broken water,
choppiness, roughness
sea, choppy sea, heavy
sea, angry s
waviness, undulation
Other Forms
increase: uprush,
upsurge, flood, tide, rising tide, swell, surge, wave
periodicity: tide, wave
outbreak: flood, tidal
wave, wave
high water: billow,
tidal wave, white horses, wave
shallowness: ripple,
cat's-paw, wave
convolution: ripple,
wave
swelling: billow,
swell, wave
roughness: rough water,
choppiness, wave
furrow: ripple, wave
oscillation: tidal
wave, wave
commotion: ground
swell, heavy sea, wave
water: high water, high
tide, spring tide, neap tide, low tide, low water, wave
ocean: waters, billows,
waves, tide, wave
gesture: pointing,
signal, waving, wave, hand signal, wave of the hand
pitfall: tidal wave,
flash flood, wave
hairdressing: wave,
blow wave, marcel wave, cold wave
wave (verb)
vary: wave, wave in
the wind, flutter, flap, hang
hang: hang in the wind,
stream, wave, float, ripple, flap
make curved: loop, curl, kink, wave,
perm, crinkle
crinkle: wave,
undulate, ripple, popple
be in motion: stir in
the wind, flutter, wave, flap, flap in the breeze, hang
elevate:
raise aloft, hold aloft, hold up, wave
oscillate: wave,
undulate
brandish: brandish,
wave, wag, waggle, shake, flourish
agitate: wag, waggle,
wave, flourish, brandish
blow: stream in the
air, wave, flap, shake, flutter, flourish, agitate
show: wave, flourish,
brandish
gesticulate: wave, wag,
waggle, agitate
primp: curl, wave, perm
be ostentatious: wave,
flourish, brandish
boast: flourish, wave,
brandish
greet: nod, wave,
smile, kiss one's fingers, blow a kiss
threaten: shake, wave,
flaunt, brandish
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Off on your
way, hit the open road,
There is magic
at your fingers
For the Spirit
ever lingers,
Undemanding contact in
your happy solitude.
Invisible airwaves
crackle with life
Bright antenna
bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback
on
timeless
wavelength
Bearing a gift
beyond price, almost free
All this
machinery making modern music
Can still be
open-hearted.
Not so coldly
charted, it's really just a question
Of your
honesty, yeah, your honesty.
One likes to
believe in the freedom of music,
But glittering
prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the
illusion of integrity.
For the words
of the profits were written on the studio wall,
Concert hall
And echoes
with the sounds of salesmen.
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A surfer once sued
another surfer for "stealing his wave." The case was thrown
out because the court was unable to put a price on "pain and
suffering" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride
"his" wave.
"My wireless
transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous
myth, but sound waves in the aether..." --
Nikola Tesla
In quantum physics the wave function
(denoted by the 23rd Greek symbol
psi) is sometimes referred
to as mathematical fiction. When
Schrodinger developed his
famous wave equation, it was a
puzzle as to what psi really
represented. It was concluded that the wave function depicted
probabilities--and not energy.