motion, movement - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

breakers, surf, breaker - waves breaking on the shore

backwash, wake - the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"

swash - the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach"

riffle, ripple, rippling, wavelet - a small wave on the surface of a liquid

crestless wave, swell - the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

lift, rise - a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

billow, surge - a large sea wave

tidal wave, tsunami - a huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)

rolling wave, roller, roll - a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

white horse, whitecap - a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white

movement, motility, motion, move - a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"

natural philosophy, physical science, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions

motion, movement - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something

gravitation wave, gravity wave - (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light

sine wave - a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve

oscillation, vibration - (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

fluctuation - a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"

seiche - a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances

standing wave, stationary wave - a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time

traveling wave - a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave

acoustic wave, sound wave - (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound

wave form, wave shape, waveform - the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time

blast wave, shock wave - a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity; "the explosion created a shock wave"

pulsation, pulse, pulsing, impulse - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"

flapping, fluttering, flap, flutter - the motion made by flapping up and down

rise - a growth in strength or number or importance

gesture, motion - the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

brandish, flourish - the act of waving

coiffure, hair style, hairdo - the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)

finger wave - a wave made with the fingers

permanent, permanent wave, perm - a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

curve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

sine curve, sinusoid - the curve of y=sin x

cold wave - a wave of unusually cold weather

heat wave - a wave of unusually hot weather

wave front - all the points just reached by a wave as it propagates

atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition - the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"

reservist - a member of a military reserve

adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

gesticulate, gesture, motion - show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave"

wigwag - send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code

move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant"

move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"

luff - flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides; "the sails luffed"

twist - turn in the opposite direction; "twist a wire"

frizz, kink, kink up, frizzle, crape, crimp - curl tightly; "crimp hair"

coiffe, coiffure, coif, arrange, do, dress, set - arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding"

marcel - make a marcel in a woman's hair

gauffer, goffer - make wavy with a heated goffering iron; "goffer the trim of the dress"

perm - give a permanent wave to; "She perms her hair"