undulation

un·du·la·tion

U0066500 (ŭn′jə-lā′shən, ŭn′dyə-, -də-)n.1. A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves.2. A wavelike form, outline, or appearance.3. One of a series of waves or wavelike segments.

undulation

(ˌʌndjʊˈleɪʃən) n1. the act or an instance of undulating2. any wave or wavelike form, line, etc

un•du•la•tion

(ˌʌn dʒəˈleɪ ʃən, ˌʌn dyə-, -də-)

n. 1. the act of undulating; a wavelike motion. 2. a wavy form or outline. 3. a wavelike bend or curve. 4. Physics. a. a wave. b. the motion of waves. [1640–50]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	undulation - an undulating curve wavecurve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changessine curve, sinusoid - the curve of y=sin x
	2.	undulation - wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of wavesmotion, movement - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
	3.	undulation - (physics) a movement up and down or back and forthwavenatural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"motion, movement - a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of somethinggravitation wave, gravity wave - (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of lightsine wave - a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curveoscillation, vibration - (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a meanfluctuation - a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"seiche - a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbancesstanding wave, stationary wave - a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with timetraveling wave, travelling wave - a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the waveacoustic wave, sound wave - (acoustics) a wave that transmits soundwave form, wave shape, waveform - the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against timeblast wave, shock wave - a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity; "the explosion created a shock wave"pulsation, pulse, pulsing, impulse - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"flapping, fluttering, flap, flutter - the motion made by flapping up and down

Translations

ondulazione