undulation
English
noun
Definitions
- An instance or act of undulating.
- A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
- A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
- A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
- (medicine) A feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart.
- (medicine) The distinctive motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening.
Etymology
Suffix from English undulate borrowed from Latin undulātiō.
Origin
Latin
undulātiō
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
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Cognates and derived terms
- circumundulate English
- undulate English
- undulately English
- undulationism English
- undulationist English
- undulative English
- undulator English
- undulatory English
- undula Latin
- undulātiō Latin
- undulātus Latin
- ondulation French