The popularity of South Korean popular culture in other countries since the 1990s.

(physics) A powerful compression wave produced by the movement of a body through a fluid or gas at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound. / Any violent disturbance.

Alternative spelling of wavefunction

(physics) The component of an electromagnetic wave (especially a radio wave) that travels directly from transmitter to receiver without being reflected

(dated) a heat wave

plural of Alfvén wave

plural of shear wave

(physics) A hydromagnetic shear wave in a charged plasma.

(physics) A wave that changes the medium through which it travels to change its shape but not its volume or density.

(physics, mathematics) The mathematical basis for quantum mechanics in which light and subatomic particles have the characteristics of both waves and particles.