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n. A purposefully designed timing of a series of traffic lights to produce a green light for cars travelling at the correct speed as they arrive at the lights.
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The Green Wave is the name of numerous sports teams, most prominently those of Tulane University's Green Wave in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Other teams using the "Green Wave" name include:
- Abington High School, Abington, Massachusetts
- Ashbrook High School, Gastonia, North Carolina
- Audubon High School, Audubon, New Jersey
- Cathedral School, Natchez, Mississippi
- Churchill Co. High School, Fallon, Nevada
- Clintwood High School, Clintwood, Virginia
- Dover High School, Dover, New Hampshire
- Easley High School, Easley, South Carolina
- East Grand Forks Senior High School, East Grand Forks, Minnesota
- Father Lopez Catholic High School, Daytona Beach, Florida
- Fort Myers High School, Fort Myers, Florida
- Gallatin High School, Gallatin, Tennessee
- Greenville Senior High School, Greenville, Ohio
- Greenfield High School, Greenfield, MA
- Holy Name High School, Parma Heights, Ohio
- Hudson Catholic High School, Hudson, Massachusetts
- Isidore Newman School, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Leeds High School, Leeds, Alabama
- Long Branch High School, Long Branch, New Jersey
- Malden High School, Malden, Missouri
- Mattoon High School, Mattoon, Illinois
- Meade County High School, Brandenburg, Kentucky
- Midway High School, Kingston, Tennessee
- Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Rutland, Vermont
- Narrows High School, Narrows, Virginia
- Newark Catholic High School, Newark, Ohio
- New Milford High School, New Milford, Connecticut
- Oswayo Valley Jr. & Sr. High, Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania
- Ponchatoula High School, Ponchatoula, Louisiana
- Sehome High School Track team, Bellingham, Washington
- Spencer High School Columbus, Georgia
- St. Edward Central Catholic High School, Elgin, Illinois
- Summerville High School, Summerville, South Carolina
- Delbarton School, Morristown, NJ
- West Point High School, West Point, MS
Usage examples of "green wave".
The sea poured through the splintered opening, and swamped the gundeck under an icy green wave.
Through the black expanse of space, they could see a rippling green wave reaching toward them.
A green wave spiked its way through a small grid readout, while a little red digital counter tracked Loring's heart rate and respiration.
The wave loomed higher and higher: a green wave, glowing with a strange translucent light that seemed to come out of the bottom of the lake.
Others appeared in the window, wave after green wave, luminous with their own reality.
A gray-green wave, opaque in its turbulence, sprang over the taffrail, soaking Moichi where he labored with a tangle of loose and shattered tackle.
All night Duncan lay in his bunk listening to the bellowing of the wind, the great thuds of solid green wave on the deck, the horrid rush and roaring of the seas as they broke loose to leeward from under the smack's keel.