Usually means: Disturbance that transfers energy through medium.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wave, wave, the wave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wave, the wave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Wave, wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Wave, wave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wave, wave: Wordnik
  7. wave, the Wave, the wave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. WAVE, wave: Wiktionary
  9. wave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Wave, wave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wave: Dictionary.com
  13. wave (n.), wave (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. THE WAVE, The Wave (Arizona), The Wave (Courbet), The Wave (Miike Snow song), The Wave (Paul Gauguin), The Wave (R3hab album), The Wave (TV series), The Wave (TV special), The Wave (Vejle), The Wave (album), The Wave (board), The Wave (book), The Wave (company), The Wave (disambiguation), The Wave (miniseries), The Wave (novel), The Wave (skyscraper), The Wave, The wave, WAVE (TV), WAVE, Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album), Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim song), Wave (Beck song), Wave (CNBLUE album), Wave (Deraniyagala book), Wave (Jobim album), Wave (Marvel Comics), Wave (Meghan Trainor song), Wave (Murray Head album), Wave (Patrick Watson album), Wave (Patti Smith Group album), Wave (T-Square album), Wave (audience), Wave (band), Wave (disambiguation), Wave (financial services and software), Wave (gesture), Wave (magazine), Wave (physics), Wave (smart speaker), Wave (song), Wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wave: Rhymezone
  19. wave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WAVE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Wave: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. wave: Free Dictionary
  24. wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wave: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Wave: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. wave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Wave: Investopedia
  3. Wave (physics), Wave (the earth sciences), wave: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WAVE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. WAVE, wave: CCI Computer
  3. Wave (physics), Wave (the earth sciences), wave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Wave (physics), Wave (the earth sciences), wave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. Wave: Castle Terms
  4. WAVE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. wave: Idioms

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Wave: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Wave: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Wave: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  6. wave: UNCChem Glossary
  7. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  8. WAVE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wave: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Wave: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Wave: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. The Wave, wave, wave: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wave: Sports Definitions

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. wave: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. wave: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. WAVE: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  8. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  9. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  11. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  12. Wave: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
verb:  (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
verb:  (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
verb:  (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
verb:  (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
verb:  (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
verb:  (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
verb:  (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
verb:  (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
noun:  A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
noun:  (poetic) The ocean.
noun:  (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
noun:  A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
noun:  Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
noun:  A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
noun:  (figurative) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
noun:  (figurative) A movement or trend in popular culture.
noun:  (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
noun:  (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
verb:  To generate a wave.
noun:  (US, historical) A members of the WAVES; a member of the US Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve).
verb:  Obsolete spelling of waive. [(transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.]

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