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A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, transferring energy. The original meaning was that of waves on water, or Wind waves. Many other phenomena are defined to be like waves.
Wave or waves may refer to:
Sciences
- Airy wave theory, fluid dynamics
- Alfvén wave, particle science
- Atmospheric wave, a periodic disturbance in the fields of atmospheric variables
- Capillary wave, fluid dynamics
- Cnoidal wave, fluid dynamics
- Creeping wave, a wave diffracted around a sphere
- Earth-Ionosphere waveguide, electrical transmission
- Edge wave, is a surface gravity wave fixed by refraction against a rigid boundary
- Faraday wave, a type of wave in liquids
- Fir wave, a forest configuration
- Gravitational wave, relativity theory
- Interference (wave propagation), a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave
- Internal wave, wave within a fluid medium
- Lamb waves, solid materials
- Matter wave, quantum mechanics
- Mechanical wave, media transmission
- Microwave, a form of electromagnetic radiation
- Pilot wave, quantum mechanics
- Rayleigh waves, surface acoustic waves that travel on solids
- Shock wave, aerodynamics
- Sound wave, a wave of sound through a medium such as air or water
- Spin wave, magnetism
- Spin-density wave, solid materials
- Terrestrial stationary waves, electrical transmission
- Tidal wave, an alternative name for tsunami
- Tollmien–Schlichting wave, fluid dynamics
- Trojan wave packet, particle science
- Wave Dragon, a wave energy converter
- Wave Motion (journal), a scientific journal
- Wave packet, quantum mechanics
- Wave-particle duality, particle science
- Wavefront, an advancing surface of wave propagation
- Waves in plasmas, particle science
Mathematics
- Bloch wave, a type of particle wave function
- Electromagnetic wave equation, describes electromagnetic wave propagation
- Evanescent wave, a mathematical wave type
- Longitudinal wave, mathematical wave type
- Periodic travelling wave, a mathematical wave type
- Phase (waves), mathematical wave type
- pp-wave spacetime, a set of exact solutions to Einstein's field equation
- Relativistic wave equations, wave equations that consider special relativity
- Sine wave, mathematical graph of a sine function
- Square wave, a mathematical waveform
- Standing wave ratio, telecommunications
- Standing wave, mathematical wave type
- Transverse wave, mathematical wave type
- Wave equation, general
- Wave function renormalization, quantum mechanics
- Wave function, quantum mechanics
- Wave period, parameter for describing a wave
- Wave propagation, any of the ways in which waves travel
- Wavelength, parameter for describing a wave
- Wavenumber, parameter for describing a wave
Computing and technology
- Apache Wave (ex-Google Wave), open-source communication and collaboration web application and protocols by Apache
- Microsoft Wave, a website dedicated to new technologies and developments from Microsoft
- PV-Wave, a programming language
- Wave Editor, a computer program
- Wave (hoax), a 2014 hoax alleging the existence of microwave charging capabilities in the iOS 8 operating system
- Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE/WAV), a file format mainly used for audio
- Waves Audio, an audio processing and effects company
- WebAIM WAVE, an accessbility evaluation tool
- Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE), IEEE 802.11p
Broadcasting
- Carrier wave, a wave that carries a signal
- CIWV-FM, an Ontario radio station (CIWV-FM) branded as Wave 94.7
- Skywave, refracted radio wave
- WAVE Radio, a Belize City radio station
- WAVE (TV), a Louisville, Kentucky television station
- Wave, a pair of television idents for BBC Two, the daytime version was introduced in early 2000 and the nighttime version was later introduced in late 2000, see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents
Music
Bands
Production
Albums
- Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album)
- Wave (CNBLUE album)
- Wave (Murray Head album)
- Wave (Patti Smith Group album)
- Wave (T-Square album)
- Waves (album by New Zealand band Waves)
- Waves (Charles Lloyd album)
- Waves (compilation album) on the Crydamoure label in 2000
- Waves (Jade Warrior album)
- Waves (Katrina and the Waves album)
- Waves (Moving Mountains album)
- Waves (Rhydian album)
- Waves (Ride album)
- Waves (Sam Rivers album)
- Waves (Terje Rypdal album)
- Waves, a 2005 album by Eric Andersen
Songs
- "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim song)
- "Wave" (Beck song)
- "Waves" (Camille song)
- "Waves" (Mono Band song)
- "Waves" (Mr Probz song)
- "Waves" (Phish song)
- "Waves", a song by Holly Miranda from The Magician's Private Library
Video games
- Geometry Wars: Waves
- Wave the Swallow, a video game character
Literature
- The Delaware Wave, a newspaper
- The Waves, a novel by Virginia Woolf
- Wave (Deraniyagala book), a 2013 memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala
- Wave Magazine
- Wellen (novel) (Waves), a novel by Eduard von Keyserling
Dance
- In Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms, a Wave is a sequence of the five kinds of improvised dance
- Waving (dance)
Hairstyles
- Waves (hairstyle), common hairstyle for African American men.
Sports
- Audience wave, an occurrence at sporting events
- Milwaukee Wave, a soccer team
- Pepperdine Waves, a sports team
- Wave (audience), a wave of standing spectators that travels through the crowd at stadiums
- Wilmington Waves, a baseball team
Vehicles
- Bajaj Wave, motor scooter
- Honda Wave series, motorcycles
- Pontiac Wave, a car
- USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships
Organizations
- Wave Accounting, Canadian software company branded as "Wave"
- Wave cinemas
- WAVE Trust (Worldwide Alternatives to ViolencE)
- Waves Audio, a company
- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service or WAVES, a division of the U.S. Navy
- Work, Achievement, Values & Education, Inc. (WAVE), a school dropout recovery and dropout prevention program approach
Business and industry
- Elliott wave principle, a market trend pattern
- Green wave, traffic flow
- Kondratiev wave, a market surge pattern
- Spending wave
- Wave picking, a process in warehouses
Social sciences
- Human wave attack
- Korean wave, a wave of culture
- Revolutionary wave, a series of revolutions
- Wave (gesture)
- Waves (festival), the annual cultural festival of BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India
Places
Other uses
- Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced in 1907
See also
- First wave (disambiguation)
- Index of wave articles
- New Wave (disambiguation)
- Radio Waves (disambiguation)
- Seventh Wave (disambiguation)
- The Third Wave (disambiguation)
- The Wave (disambiguation)
- Wave model (disambiguation)
- Welle (disambiguation)