Wave (disambiguation)

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

Wave or waves may also refer to:

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
• Faraday wave, a type of wave in liquids
• Gravitational wave, relativity theory
• Internal wave, wave within a fluid medium
• Lamb waves, solid materials
• Matter wave, quantum mechanics
• Mechanical wave, media transmission
• Pilot wave, quantum mechanics
• 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
• Wave Motion (journal), a scientific journal
• Wave packet, quantum mechanics
• Wave-particle duality, particle science
• Waves in plasmas, particle science
• Earth-Ionosphere waveguide, electrical transmission
• Microwave, transmission
• Wavefront, an advancing surface of wave propagation

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
• 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, mathematical wave type
• Standing wave ratio, telecommunications
• Transverse wave, mathematical wave type
• Wave equation, general
• Wave function, quantum mechanics
• Wave function renormalization, quantum mechanics
• Wave period, parameter for describing a wave
• Wavelength, parameter for describing a wave
• Wavenumber, parameter for describing a wave
• Phase (waves), mathematical wave type

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

Computing and technology

• Apache Wave (ex-Google Wave), open-source communication and collaboration web application and protocols by Apache (previously by Google)
• Microsoft Wave, a website dedicated to new technologies and developments from Microsoft
• PV-Wave, a programming language
• Waves Audio, an audio processing and effects company
• Wave Editor, a computer program
• Waveguide
• Wavelength-division multiplexing
• Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE/WAV), a file format mainly used for audio
• Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment, IEEE 802.11p

Broadcasting

• Carrier wave, a wave that carries a signal
• Skywave, refracted radio wave
• WAVE, a Louisville, Kentucky television station
• WAVE Radio, a Belize City radio station
• Wave 94.7, an Ontario radio station (CIWV-FM)

Music

• Wave (band)

• Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album)
  • "Wave" (song), a song written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, from the above album.
• Wave (Murray Head album)
• Wave (Patti Smith Group album)
• Waves (Charles Lloyd album)
• Waves (Katrina and the Waves album)
• Waves (compilation album)
• Waves (Rhydian album)
• Waves (Ride album)
• Waves (Sam Rivers album)

• "Waves" (Camille song)
• "Waves" (Mono Band song)
• "Waves" (Phish song)
• "Waves", a song by Holly Miranda from The Magician's Private Library
• "Waves", a song by Classics IV, composed by Buddy Buie and James B. Cobb, Jr.
• "Waves", a song by Guthrie Govan on the album Erotic Cakes

Video games

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

Literature

• The Waves, a novel by Virginia Woolf
• Wave Magazine
• The Delaware Wave, a newspaper
• Wellen (novel) (Waves), a novel by Eduard von Keyserling

Dance

• Waving (dance)

Hairstyles

• Waves (hairstyle), common hairstyle for African American men.

Sports

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

Ships

• USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships

Land vehicles

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

Organizations

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

Sociology

• Korean wave, a wave of culture
• Revolutionary wave, a series of revolutions

Economics

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

Linguistics

• Wave model (linguistics)

Places

• Waves, North Carolina

Other uses

• Fir wave, a forest configuration
• First wave (disambiguation)
• Green wave, traffic flow
• Human wave attack
• Witching Waves, an amusement ride introduced in 1907
• Radio Waves (disambiguation)
• Seventh Wave (disambiguation)
• Tidal wave
• Welle (disambiguation)

See also

• The Third Wave (disambiguation)
• The Wave (disambiguation)
• Index of wave articles