Wave (disambiguation)

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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. See Index of wave articles for related topics.

Wave or waves may also refer to:

In arts, entertainment, and media

Broadcast stations

WAVE (TV), a Louisville, Kentucky television station
WAVE Radio, a Belize City radio station
CIWV-FM, an Ontario radio station (CIWV-FM) branded as Wave 94.7
Wave, a pair of television idents for BBC Two; see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents

Dance

In Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms, a Wave is a sequence of the five kinds of improvised dance

Literature

The Waves, a novel by Virginia Woolf
Wave (Deraniyagala book), a 2013 memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave Magazine
The Delaware Wave, a newspaper
Wave Motion (journal), a scientific journal
Wellen (novel) (Waves), a novel by Eduard von Keyserling

Music

Genres

Bands

Wave (band), a Canadian pop band
Waves (band), a New Zealand folk rock band
Wavves, an American rock band

Production

WAVE Studio, operated by Catholic bishops in Pakistan

Businesses

Wave Accounting, Canadian software company branded as "Wave"
Waves Audio, a company
Wave Broadband, a Washington state based provider of cable TV, broadband internet, and telephone services in California, Oregon, and Washington.
Wave Group, an India-based business conglomerate in the manufacturing, real estate, education, sports and entertainment industries

In computing and electronics

Wave (hoax), a 2014 hoax alleging microwave charging capabilities in the iOS 8 operating system
Apache Wave (formerly Google Wave), open-source communication and collaboration web application and protocols by Apache
Microsoft Wave, a website of technologies created by Microsoft
PV-Wave, a programming language
Wave Editor, a computer program
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE/WAV), a file format mainly used for audio
WebAIM WAVE, an accessbility evaluation tool
Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE), IEEE 802.11p

In economics and industry

Elliott wave principle, a market trend pattern
Kondratiev wave, a market surge pattern
Spending wave, economic effect of departure of children from the home
Wave picking, a process in warehouse management

Organizations

WAVE Trust (Worldwide Alternatives to ViolencE)
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
World Against Violence and Extremism, a proposal by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to denounce violence and extremism

In society

Wave (audience), a wave of standing spectators that travels through a crowd at stadiums or other venues
Wave (gesture)
Waves (festival), the annual cultural festival of BITS Pilani Goa Campus, India
Human wave attack
Korean Wave, a wave of Korean culture
Revolutionary wave, a series of revolutions

Sports teams

Milwaukee Wave, a soccer team
Pepperdine Waves, the athletic program of Pepperdine University
Wilmington Waves, a baseball team

Vehicles

Airwave Wave, an Austrian paraglider design
Bajaj Wave, motor scooter
Honda Wave series, motorcycles
Pontiac Wave, a car
USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships
Wave (brig), a brig wrecked near Cape Riche in Western Australia in 1848

Other uses

Waves (hairstyle), common hairstyle for African American men.
Waves, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in the US
Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced in 1907
WAVE, a protein in the WASP family of proteins