A wave spring, also known as coiled wave spring or scrowave spring, is a spring made up of pre-hardened flat wire in a process called on-edge coiling...

travelling wave; by contrast, a pair of superimposed periodic waves traveling in opposite directions makes a standing wave. In a standing wave, the amplitude...

(t)soo-NAH-mee, (t)suu-; from Japanese: 津波, lit. 'harbour wave', pronounced [tsɯnami]) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large...

Revolutions of the 18th century to the Arab Spring of the 21st. Scholars have also noted that the appearance of "waves" of democracy largely vanishes when women's...

Third-wave coffee is a term primarily in the United States coffee industry emphasizing higher quality, single-origin farms and light roast to bring out...

Torsion spring Any spring designed to be twisted rather than compressed or extended. Used in torsion bar vehicle suspension systems. Wave spring various...

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves or killer waves) are large and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated...

Premier Doug Ford conceded that the province was experiencing a second wave and began to study implementing a new restrictions framework. The provincial...

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening...

A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric sine function. In mechanics, as a...

In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space...

Rayleigh waves are a type of surface acoustic wave that travel along the surface of solids. They can be produced in materials in many ways, such as by...

Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that fundamental entities of the universe, like photons and electrons, exhibit particle or wave...

January 22, 2001 Prague spring: Russian tanks in the streets and a new wave in the cinema The Guardian, 2 Dec 1999 Czechoslovak New Wave Simon Hitchman, 2015...

The wave equation is a second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves or standing wave fields such as mechanical waves (e...

The Korean Wave, or hallyu (Korean: 한류; listen), is the dramatic rise in global interest in South Korean popular culture since the 1990s—led by K-pop,...

Gravitational waves are oscillations of the gravitational field that travel through space at the speed of light; they are generated by the relative motion...

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...

In physics, a standing wave, also known as a stationary wave, is a wave that oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space...

to bring down the regime'). The wave of initial revolutions and protests faded by mid to late 2012, as many Arab Spring demonstrations were met with violent...

a partial list of temperature phenomena that have been labeled as heat waves, listed in order of occurrence. 1540 European drought - Extreme drought...

"Fast Wave", the "Slow Wave", and two simultaneous waves traveling in opposite directions. The following spring, fans who had enjoyed the wave in Ann...

that a wave travels through. Examples of waves are sound waves, light, water waves and periodic electrical signals in a conductor. A sound wave is a variation...

and service centre for the wave energy converters (WEC). The CorPower WEC is a point absorber device, fitted with a "WaveSpring" that allows the device to...

In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the...

the P wave. An R wave follows as an upward deflection, and the S wave is any downward deflection after the R wave. The T wave follows the S wave, and in...

Mark; Walton, Heather; Cook, Lois; Black, Emily (Spring 2005). "The impact of the 2003 heat wave on mortality and hospital admissions in England" (PDF)...

Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality. At all scales where measurements have been practical...

Rossby waves, also known as planetary waves, are a type of inertial wave naturally occurring in rotating fluids. They were first identified by Sweden-born...

Longitudinal waves are waves which oscillate in the direction which is parallel to the direction in which the wave travels and displacement of the medium...