Wave (disambiguation)

Not to be confused with Waves (disambiguation).

A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space.

Wave or waves may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

• Wave (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Universe
• Wave the Swallow, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
• Wave, a character in Agame ga Kill!

Literature and writing

• Wave (magazine), an English-language, monthly magazine in Nepal
• Wave (Deraniyagala book), a 2013 memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala
• Wave Books, an American publisher

Music

• Wave music, an electronic bass music genre

Bands

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

Albums

• Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album), 1967
• Wave (Patti Smith Group album), 1979
• Wave (T-Square album), 1989
• Wave (Murray Head album), 1992
• Wave (CNBLUE album), 2014
• Wave (Patrick Watson album), 2019
• Wave (Ive EP), 2023
• Wave (WEi EP), 2024

Songs

• "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim song), 1967
• "Wave" (Asake and Central Cee song), 2024
• "Wave" (Beck song), 2014
• "Wave" (Meghan Trainor song), 2019
• "Wave", a 2018 song by Justin Timberlake from Man of the Woods
• "Wave", a song by Ateez from the album Treasure EP.3: One to All

Radio and television stations

See also: The Wave (disambiguation) § Radio stations

• DWAV, an FM radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines formerly known as Wave 89.1 (2001–2024)
• WAVE (TV), an American television station
• WAVE Radio, a radio station in Belize City
• CHKX-FM, Canadian radio station known as Wave 947
• Wave, a pair of television idents for BBC Two; see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents

Businesses and organizations

For sports organizations, see § Sport.

• Wave (financial services and software), a Canadian company
• Wave Broadband, an American service provider
• WAVE Trust, Worldwide Alternatives to Violence, a charity
• WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, a former branch of the U.S. Navy
• Waves Audio, an Israeli company
• Women Against Violence Europe

Politics

• Landslide victory, in electoral politics
  • Wave elections in the United States
• Conservative wave, a political phenomenon in the mid-2010s to early 2020s in Latin America

Sport

• Milwaukee Wave, an American soccer team
• Pepperdine Waves, the athletic program of Pepperdine University, U.S.
• Wilmington Waves, an American baseball team

Technology

For vehicles, see § Vehicles.

For technology companies, see § Businesses and organizations.

• WAV, Waveform Audio File Format, also known as WAVE
• Wave (smart speaker), by Naver Corporation and Line Corporation
• Apache Wave, formerly Google Wave, a software framework
• Wave, a 2014 iOS 8 hoax feature
• PV-Wave, a programming language
• WebAIM WAVE, an accessibility evaluation tool

Vehicles

• Wave (brig), a sailing vessel wrecked in 1848
• Wave (HBC vessel), operated by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1840–1841; see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
• USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships
• Airwave Wave, an Austrian paraglider design
• Bajaj Wave, a motor scooter
• Honda Wave series, motorcycles
• Pontiac Wave, a car

Other uses

• Wave (audience), or Mexican wave, when successive spectators raise their arms
• Wave (gesture), involving moving one's hand
• Wave (typeface)
• Waves (hairstyle), a hairstyle for curly hair

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Wave
• All pages with titles containing wave
• Wav (disambiguation)
• Waves (disambiguation)
• The Wave (disambiguation)
• Blue Wave (disambiguation)
• Great Wave (disambiguation)
• Wave model (disambiguation)
• Wave, Wave, a South Korean soap opera