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S: (n) shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation (a shaky motion) "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe"
S: (n) oscillation, vibration ((physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean)

S: (n) gravity wave, gravitation wave ((physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light)
S: (n) sine wave (a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve)

S: (n) oscillation, vibration ((physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean)
S: (n) fluctuation (a wave motion) "the fluctuations of the sea"
S: (n) seiche (a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances)
S: (n) standing 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 time)
S: (n) traveling wave, travelling wave (a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave)

S: (n) sound wave, acoustic wave ((acoustics) a wave that transmits sound)
S: (n) wave form, waveform, wave shape (the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time)
S: (n) shock wave, blast wave (a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity) "the explosion created a shock wave"

S: (n) pulsation, pulsing, pulse, 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"
S: (n) flap, flapping, flutter, fluttering (the motion made by flapping up and down)

S: (n) vibration, vibe (a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively) "that place gave me bad vibrations"; "it gave me a nostalgic vibe"