airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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(noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
microwave | (noun) kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food | Synonyms: microwave oven |
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(noun) a short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data | - |
(verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, nuke, zap |
unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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(adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
unwaveringly | (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, firmly, steadfastly |
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wave | (noun) a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon | - |
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(noun) a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair | - |
(noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, waving |
(noun) (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth | Synonyms: undulation |
(noun) one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) | Synonyms: moving ridge |
(noun) something that rises rapidly | - |
(noun) a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures) | - |
(noun) an undulating curve | Synonyms: undulation |
(verb) set waves in | - |
(verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: beckon |
(verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, flourish |
(verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: curl |
(verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate |
waveband | (noun) a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) | Synonyms: frequency band |
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waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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wavefront | (noun) (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium | Synonyms: wave front |
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waveguide | (noun) a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves; used in radar | Synonyms: wave guide |
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wavelength | (noun) the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave | - |
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(noun) a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding | - |
wavelet | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling |
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wavelike | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy |
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waver | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, flutter |
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(noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, hesitation |
(noun) someone who communicates by waving | - |
(verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
(verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
(verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
(verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |
waverer | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, vacillator |
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wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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(noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
(noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |