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...

(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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Traffic waves, which are also called stop waves, ghost jams, traffic snakes or traffic shocks, are traveling disturbances in the distribution of cars...

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

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...

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...

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 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,...

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

A P wave (primary wave or pressure wave) is one of the two main types of elastic body waves, called seismic waves in seismology. P waves travel faster...

heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather : 2911  that lasts for multiple days. A heat wave is usually...

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...

The Second Wave: A Magazine of The New Feminism was an American feminist magazine from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1971, the magazine published...

desalination, or pumping water. A machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC). Waves are generated primarily by wind passing over the sea's...