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  • certain cases of this form of hand-waving may be explicitly permitted. Hand-waving is an idiomatic metaphor, derived in part from the use of excessive gesticulation...
    19 KB (2,339 words) - 06:01, 12 March 2024
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    standing wave. In a standing wave, the amplitude of vibration has nulls at some positions where the wave amplitude appears smaller or even zero. Waves are...
    62 KB (7,928 words) - 09:41, 30 April 2024
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    Waving is a nonverbal communication gesture that consists of the movement of the hand and/or entire arm that people commonly use to greet each other,...
    13 KB (1,554 words) - 02:03, 1 May 2024
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    a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations. In a transverse wave, the direction of the oscillation...
    72 KB (9,318 words) - 15:07, 27 May 2024
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    circular polarization of an electromagnetic wave is a polarization state in which, at each point, the electromagnetic field of the wave has a constant magnitude...
    39 KB (5,003 words) - 21:05, 26 May 2024
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    from the opera, which they change from one face to another almost instantaneously with the swipe of a fan, a movement of the head, or wave of the hand. Face-changing...
    8 KB (858 words) - 01:44, 24 January 2024
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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e...
    55 KB (5,965 words) - 17:34, 7 May 2024
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    Surfing (redirect from Barreling wave)
    board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing...
    86 KB (10,640 words) - 01:39, 25 May 2024
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    Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with the lowest frequencies and the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, typically...
    34 KB (3,801 words) - 01:11, 27 May 2024
  • Dhamar (music) (category Indian styles of music)
    out the beat, beats 1, 6, and 11 are clapped (tali), and beat 8 is indicated by a wave of the hand (khali): (1) Clap 2 3 4 5 |(1) Clap 2 |(1) Wave 2 3...
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    wave is a wave that oscillates perpendicularly to the direction of the wave's advance. In contrast, a longitudinal wave travels in the direction of its...
    18 KB (1,756 words) - 01:36, 24 May 2024
  • The R wave and the L wave are right-hand and left-hand circularly polarized, respectively. The R wave has a cut-off at ωR (hence the designation of this...
    8 KB (1,334 words) - 23:50, 8 January 2024
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    consists of waves of the electromagnetic (EM) field, which propagate through space and carry momentum and electromagnetic radiant energy. Types of EMR include...
    79 KB (9,550 words) - 10:35, 9 May 2024
  • "Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith. It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. The most famous...
    7 KB (988 words) - 14:13, 14 July 2023
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    wave function (or wavefunction) is a mathematical description of the quantum state of an isolated quantum system. The most common symbols for a wave function...
    99 KB (13,534 words) - 13:10, 15 April 2024
  • count the bands that do it well and are going to last on one hand. The Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, The Ramones – and The Jam. Although new wave shares...
    60 KB (6,514 words) - 06:00, 18 May 2024
  • of beats may form a Vibhag. Usually the beats will be in two, three, or four. They should be designated either with a clap or a wave of the hand. The...
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  • enemy of the X-Men. The Dominikos Petrakis version of Avalanche is a Cretan mutant who possesses the ability to generate seismic waves from his hands that...
    18 KB (2,407 words) - 09:23, 30 April 2024
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    the battle. Another possibility is Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena. The Madonna is seated on a throne, and seems to give assent with a wave of the hand...
    5 KB (613 words) - 17:08, 3 April 2024
  • The 5th Wave is a 2016 American science fiction action film directed by J Blakeson, with a screenplay by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner...
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