(music) An alternative and broad pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk sensibilities and/or other forms of music, but made with more accessibility.

Alternative spelling of shortwave

(geology, seismology) A longitudinal compressional wave produced by an earthquake.

(geology) A seismic wave that travels through the Earth's interior rather than over the surface. P-waves and S-waves are examples of body waves.

(geology, seismology) A transverse, shear wave, such as that produced by an earthquake. Movement is transverse to the direction of propagation and is a body wave.

Alternative spelling of wavenumber

(geology) A seismic surface shock wave, which is also known as a Q-wave, with a lateral horizontal movement perpendicular to the direction of propagation.

(geology) Synonym of Love wave

(Britain) A series of waves in the hair produced by means of chemical substances and heat; a perm / (physics) A wave in a moving fluid that does not change shape or position relative to the fluid

A regular sequence of wave pulses