Synonyms of the word undulation


UNDULATIONCURVE - MOTION - MOVEMENT - WAVE

undulation

  • n. an instance or act of undulating.
  • n. a wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
  • n. (music) a tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
  • n. a wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
  • n. a wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.

curve

  • adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
  • n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
  • n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
  • n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
  • n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  • n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
  • n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  • n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
  • n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
  • v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
  • v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
  • v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
  • v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

motion

  • n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
  • n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
  • n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  • n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
  • n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
  • n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
  • n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
  • n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
  • v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
  • v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  • v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

movement

  • n. Physical motion between points in space.
  • n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
  • n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
  • n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
  • n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
  • n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
  • n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
  • n. An act of emptying the bowels.
  • n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

wave

  • v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
  • v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  • v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  • n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  • n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
  • v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

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