Definition of wave

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Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..

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Changeling :: Changeling (n.) One apt to change; a waverer.
Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.
Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb..
Indecision :: Indecision (n.) Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation..
Mattress :: Mattress (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves..
Vacillatory :: Vacillatory (a.) Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute.
Wavered :: Wavered (imp. & p. p.) of Wave.
Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Waft :: Waft (n.) A wave or current of wind.
Float :: Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n..
Giddy :: Giddy (superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity..
Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Moving like a wave; waverin.
Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate..
Waved :: Waved (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc..
Marine :: Marine (a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits..
Dicrotism :: Dicrotism (n.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.
Fluctuation :: Fluctuation (n.) A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea..
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