| Front | wave |weɪv| |
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| Back | verb 1 move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal: 2 move to and fro with a swaying motion while remaining fixed to one point: 3 style (hair) so that it curls slightly: noun 1 a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore: 2 a sudden occurrence of or increase in a phenomenon, feeling, or emotion: 3 a gesture or signal made by moving one's hand to and fro: 4 a slightly curling lock of hair: 5 Physics 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. See also standing wave and travelling wave. DERIVATIVES waveless adjective , wave-like adjective |
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