wave
— Verb
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～ signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably"
wave off
— Verb
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～ dismiss as insignificant; "He waved off suggestions of impropriety"
wave
— Verb
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～ set waves in; "she asked the hairdresser to wave her hair"
wave
— Verb
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～ twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
wave
— Verb
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～ move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
heat wave
— Noun
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～ a wave of unusually hot weather
Hertzian wave
— Noun
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～ a former name for a radio wave; an electromagnetic wave of radio frequency generated by oscillations in an electric circuit
delta wave
— Noun
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～ the normal brainwave in the encephalogram of a person in deep dreamless sleep; occurs with high voltage and low frequency (1 to 4 hertz)
electromagnetic wave
— Noun
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～ radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge
gravitation wave
— Noun
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～ (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light
gravity wave
— Noun
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～ (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light
ground wave
— Noun
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～ a radio wave propagated on or near the earth's surface
full-wave rectifier
— Noun
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～ rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave
finger wave
— Noun
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～ a wave made with the fingers
air wave
— Noun
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～ a sound wave that is transmitted via air
alpha wave
— Noun
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～ the normal brainwave in the electroencephalogram of a person who is awake but relaxed; occurs with a frequency of 8-12 hertz
carrier wave
— Noun
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～ a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
blast wave
— Noun
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～ a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity; "the explosion created a shock wave"
beta wave
— Noun
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～ the normal brainwave in the encephalogram of a person who is awake and alert; occurs with a frequency between 12 and 30 hertz
brain wave
— Noun
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～ (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph