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Contents 1 Physical science 2 Mathematics 3 Earth science and geography 4 Medicine 5 Computing and technology 6 Broadcasting 7 Music 8 Video games 9 Literature & Publications 10 Art 11 Sports 12 Ships 13 Land vehicles 14 Organizations 15 Sociology 16 Economics 17 Linguistics 18 Places 19 Other uses 20 See also

A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, transfering energy.

Wave or waves may also refer to:

[edit] Physical science

• Airy wave theory, fluid dynamics
• Alfvén wave, particle science
• Capillary wave, fluid dynamics
• Cnoidal wave, fluid dynamics
• Creeping wave, a wave diffracted around a sphere
• Earth-Ionosphere waveguide, electrical transmission
• Faraday wave, a type of wave in liquids
• Gravitational wave, relativity theory
• Internal wave, wave within a fluid medium
• Matter wave, quantum mechanics
• Mechanical wave, media transmission
• Microwave, transmission
• Pilot wave, quantum mechanics
• Lamb waves, solid materials
• Shock wave, aerodynamics
• Spin-density wave, solid materials
• Spin wave, magnetism
• Terrestrial stationary waves, electrical transmission
• Tollmien–Schlichting wave, fluid dynamics
• Trojan wave packet, particle science
• Wave Dragon, a wave energy converter
• Wavefront, an advancing surface of wave propagation
• Wave packet, quantum mechanics
• Wave-particle duality, particle science
• Waves in plasmas, particle science

[edit] 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
• 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 funtion
• Square wave, a mathematical waveform
• Standing wave, mathematical wave type
• Standing wave ratio, telecommunications
• Transverse wave, mathematical wave type
• Wave equation, general
• Wave function, quantum mechanics
• Wave function renormalization, quantum mechanics
• Wavelength, parameter for describing a wave
• Wavenumber, parameter for describing a wave
• Wave period, parameter for describing a wave

[edit] Earth science and geography

• Antarctic Circumpolar Wave, a regional water wave
• Cold wave, meteorology
• Gravity wave, a wave generated by the restoring force of gravity
• Heat wave, meteorology
• Inertial wave, a wave generated by the rotation of a fluid
• Lee wave, an atmospheric standing wave
• Love wave, a type of seismic wave
• Ocean surface wave
• P-wave, a type of seismic wave
• Rogue wave, an anomolously large ocean wave
• Rossby wave, meanders in high-altitude winds
• Seismic wave, a wave passing through the Earth because of a disturbance
• Sneaker wave, a kind of coastal water wave
• Tropical wave, a type of regional ocean wave
• Wave power, transport of energy by ocean waves
• Wave Rock, a natural rock formation in Australia
• Waves and shallow water
• Wind wave, a wave generated by the wind
• Wind wave model, meteorology

[edit] Medicine

• Alpha wave, a brain wave
• Cannon A waves, a cardiac wave
• Gamma wave, a brain wave
• PGO waves, a brain wave
• Slow-wave sleep, a type of sleep

[edit] Computing and technology

• Google Wave and the Google Wave Federation Protocol, open-source communication and collaboration web application and protocols by Google
• Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment
• PV-Wave, a programming language
• WAV, a file format
• Wave Editor, a computer program
• Waveguide
• Wavelength-division multiplexing
• Waves Audio, an audio processing and effects company

[edit] Broadcasting

• Carrier wave, a wave that carries a signal
• Skywave, refracted radio wave
• WAVE-TV, a television station
• WAVE Radio, a Belize City radio station
• Wave 94.7, an Ontario radio station

[edit] Music

• Coldwave, a genre
• Italia Wave, an event
• New Wave music, a genre
• Permanent Waves, an album
• Planet Waves, a Dylan album
• Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album)
• Wave (band)
• Wave (Murray Head album)
• Wave (Patti Smith Group album)
• Wave (song), a song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim
• Waves (compilation album)
• Waves (Katrina and the Waves album)
• Waves (Mono Band song)
• Waves (Phish song)
• Waves (Ride album)

[edit] Video games

• Alpha Waves
• Geometry Wars: Waves
• Wave the Swallow, a video game character

[edit] Literature & Publications

• The Waves, an experimental novel by Virginia Woolf first published in 1931
• Waves, a novel by Ogan Gurel first published in English in 2009
• Wellen (novel), a novel (Wellen = Waves in German) by Eduard von Keyserling first published in German in 1911
• The Third Wave (book)
• Wave Magazine
• The Delaware Wave, a newspaper
• Hattie and the Wild Waves, a book

[edit] Art

• No Wave, an underground art scene
• The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a Japanese print
• The Ninth Wave, a painting

[edit] Sports

• Milwaukee Wave, a soccer team
• Audience wave, an occurrence at sporting events
• Wilmington Waves, a baseball team
• Pepperdine Waves, a sports team

[edit] Ships

• HMS Wave, a British ship
• USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships

[edit] Land vehicles

• Bajaj Wave, motor scooter
• Honda Wave series, motorcycles
• Pontiac Wave, a car

[edit] Organizations

• Wave cinemas
• Waves Audio, a company
• WAVES, a division of the U.S. Navy
• Work, Achievement, Values & Education, Inc. (WAVE), a school dropout recovery and dropout prevention program approach

[edit] Sociology

• Korean wave, a wave of culture
• Revolutionary wave, a series of revolutions
• Second-wave feminism

[edit] Economics

• Elliott wave principle, a market trend pattern
• Kondratiev wave, a market surge pattern
• Spending wave

[edit] Linguistics

• Wave model (linguistics)

[edit] Places

• Waves, North Carolina

[edit] Other uses

• Audience wave, a stadium phenomenon
• Fir wave, a forest configuration
• Green wave, traffic flow
• Human wave attack
• Iranian New Wave, an Iranian film movement
• Killer Wave, a TV mini-series
• Shock Waves, theatre
• Wave, a hand gesture
• Waving (dance)
• Waves (hairstyle)
• Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced in 1907

[edit] See also

• First wave
• Green Wave
• Index of wave articles
• Radio Waves
• Seventh Wave
• The Third Wave (disambiguation)
• The Wave (disambiguation)
• Tidal wave
• Welle

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