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wave | American Dictionary

wave
verb[ I/T ]
us/weɪv/

waveverb[I/T] (MOVE)

to raise your hand and move it from side to side as a greeting, or to get someone's attention or give information:
[ I ]She leaned out the window and waved (good-bye).
[ M ]As soon as we showed our papers as journalists, the policeman waved us in (= moved his hand to allow us to go in).
If you wave something or something waves, you move it from side to side while holding it in the hand, or something else moves it in this way:
[ T ]He was very excited and rushed into the room waving a piece of paper.
[ I ]Flags waved in the breeze.
wave
noun[ C ]
us/weɪv/

wavenoun[C] (WATER MOVEMENT)

a raised movement of water rolling across the surface esp. of the sea:
We were so close we could hear the waves breaking on the beach.
A wave is also a sudden increase in an activity or in the strength of a condition or feeling:
A wave of emotion swept through her as she visited her home town.

wavenoun[C] (ENERGY FORM)

physics
the continuous, repeating pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:
electromagnetic waves

wavenoun[C] (MOVE)

a movement of your raised hand from side to side or up and down as a greeting or goodbye, or to get someone's attention or give information:
She looked at him for a long time, and then, with a wave of her hand, she was off.

wave | Business English

wave
noun[ C ]
uk /weɪv/us
a larger than usual number of events of a similar, often bad, type, happening within the same period:
a wave of sthDuring the recession there was a wave of bankruptcies and mass unemployment.
a crime wave
the pattern in which some types of energy, such as sound, light, and heat, are spread or carried:
light/sound/radio wavesLarge amounts of data is transmitted via light waves inside fiberoptic cables.
 make waves
to do things that make people notice you, often in a way that causes trouble:
Sometimes, an employee feels intimidated by workplace bullying, but, they don't want to make waves.

Examples of wave

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Here we consider some dustcharging effects on plasma waves on the macroscopic level.
The disper sion equation for the waves was obtained as the product of two equations.
To illustrate this effect, we solve (1) numerically for right-hand polarized waves.
Such a distribution function is formed mainly owing to pitch-angle scattering caused by ultralow-frequency hydromagnetic waves.
The stabilization of self-excited (linearly unstable) ionization waves (using centre manifold theory) is a topic that will be presented in a forthcoming paper.
The resulting (not self-generated) wavepackets are called waves of stratification.
In the compressible case magnetosonic waves should also be taken into account.
The moon and sun's gravitational forces mostly drive the longest waves (tides).
To take advantage of the benefits offered by this approach, four waves of data were collected across the 3-week time span of this study.
The movements are worm-like, the contractions passing along the body in waves.
Future research with multiple waves of data collection will help to better quantify these associations.
They showed that the intrusion initially propagates along the middle layer as a bulbous head, leaving a train of interfacial waves in its wake.
Special attention is given to solutions for which there is a train of waves on each side of the distribution of pressure.
In particular, it is shown that (depending on the values of the parameters) short waves may appear on either side of the pressure distribution.
Therefore, the waves of shorter wavelength are now on the back.
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