Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A wave at a fluid boundary dominated by surface tension (opposed to larger waves dominated by gravity), a ripple.
Etymologies
- So named because the wave propagation is due to similar physical principles to those involved in capillary action. (Wiktionary)
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Waves and Waveforms
wave, brainwave, soliton, traveling wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, capillary wave, cats' paws, alpha wave, light wave, microwave, acoustic wave and 314 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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The Waves
In the water. See also waves-and-waveforms.
comber, groundswell, wavelet, tidal wave, billow, breaker, seiche, mirobia, rolling wave, surge, swell, bow-wave and 40 more...
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chained_bear Usage on cats' paws. Aug 19, 2009