Usually means: Rapid pressure change, propagates forcefully.
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  1. shock wave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shock wave: Merriam-Webster
  3. shock wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shock wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shock wave: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shock wave: Vocabulary.com
  7. shock-wave: Wordnik
  8. shock wave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shock wave: Wiktionary
  10. shock wave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shock wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shock wave: Dictionary.com
  13. Shock Wave (Six Flags Over Texas), Shock Wave (film), Shock Wave (novel), Shock wave, The Shock Wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. shock wave: Rhymezone
  15. shock wave: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shock wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. shock wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shock wave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shock Wave: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shock Wave: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. SHOCK WAVE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shock wave)

noun:  (physics) A powerful compression wave produced by the movement of a body through a fluid or gas at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound.
noun:  (figuratively) Any violent disturbance.

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