Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves.
- noun A wavelike form, outline, or appearance.
- noun One of a series of waves or wavelike segments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In playing musical instruments of the viol class, the wavy tone produced by oscillating or balancing the finger on a string that is being stopped.
- noun The act of undulating; a waving motion; fluctuation; in physics, wave-motion: as, the undulations of water or air or the ether.
- noun A wavy form; a form resembling that of a wave or waves; waviness.
- noun In pathology, a particular uneasy sensation of an undulatory motion in the heart.
- noun In surgery, a certain motion of the matter of an abscess when pressed, which indicates its fitness for opening.
- noun A set of waved lines; a surface so marked, or such an appearance; vermiculation; waviness.
- noun In geometry, the coming of a plane curve into a higher contact than usual with its tangent without contrary flexure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration.
- noun A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- noun The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.
- noun The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also
beat . - noun (Physics) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an instance or act of
undulating - noun a
wavy appearance or outline;waviness - noun music a
tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string - noun a
wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall - noun a wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- noun wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves
- noun an undulating curve
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are two motions of the waves -- one up and down, which we call undulation, the other to and fro, which we call fluctuation.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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The undulation is the work of two collaborators: it expresses both the nature of the object which provokes it and that of the nervous apparatus which is its vehicle.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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The poor, I found, believed that this pious exercise dispersed the evil spirits of the storm; while the better sort conceived that it occasioned some kind of undulation in the air, and so broke the continuity of the electric fluid.
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There was a kind of undulation in her body, which ended in a little sob, which was hidden and stifled by her fingers.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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There was a kind of undulation in her body, which ended in a little sob, which was hidden and stifled by her fingers.
Original Short Stories — Volume 06 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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There is a kind of undulation in the popularity of the great writers, even of the first rank.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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There is a kind of undulation in the popularity of the great writers, even of the first rank.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830
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The sound of undulation dappled with the scriptures of the sun.
My House In The Middle Of The Ocean John Olson 2011
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And the chief reason for this undulation is that they play leading roles on the home front; leading to supporting roles on the work front.
Cathy Benko: Replace Corporate Ladders With Lattices Cathy Benko 2011
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This one is particularly difficult because of the undulation in the fairways and the demand that it puts on the second shot.
The Open 2011: Move to seaside has Darren Clarke on crest of a wave 2011
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