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- noun physics An
oscillating device that creates reproduciblewaves in aliquid
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GRIFFIN: Our top story, the 9/11 commission report a hot seller at bookstores, and now a wavemaker in Washington.
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Otherwise, we would appoint a party man, we would give a comrade responsibility and convert his task into a grinder of men, into a wavemaker, into a wrench, although he solves any problem.
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Yet another hypothesis comes from Costas Synolakis, director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who thinks that the shaking land may have caused water to vibrate, "like a plunging wavemaker".
Scientific American 2010
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PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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t = 107229&highlight = lnusertemp Last Edit: Today at 05: 13: 02 PM by wavemaker » chmod the / tmp folder to 1777.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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