overshoot wave-off go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
Secretary of Energy Energy Secretary | the position of the head of the Department of Energy, the post of Energy Secretary was created in |
waste of effort waste of energy | a useless effort |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
waveguide wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
wind farm wind park wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
energy muscularity vigor vigour vim | an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing), his writing conveys great energy, a remarkable muscularity of style |
energy push get-up-and-go | enterprising or ambitious drive, Europeans often laugh at American energy |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
energy vigor vigour zip | forceful exertion, he plays tennis with great energy, he's full of zip |
wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave permanent perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
particle physics high-energy physics high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
conservation of energy law of conservation of energy first law of thermodynamics | the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes |
wave theory undulatory theory wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
Schrodinger equation Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
wave waving wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
gravity wave gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
standing wave stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
traveling wave travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
air wave | a sound wave that is transmitted via air |
wave form waveform wave shape | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time |
shock wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
swell crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun |
tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide |
tidal wave | an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon, a tidal wave of nausea, the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave, a tidal wave of crime |
roller roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
wave | something that rises rapidly, a wave of emotion swept over him, there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed, a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right |
Atomic Energy Commission AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Department of Energy Energy Department Energy DOE | the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States, created in |
Department of Energy Intelligence DOEI | an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community |
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
wave train | a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals |
avant-garde vanguard van new wave | any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) |
New Wave Nouvelle Vague | an art movement in French cinema in the s |
wave front wavefront | (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium |
psychic energy mental energy | an actuating force or factor |