What is "wavelike"

Usage examples of "wavelike".

During flight the UFO will either zigzag horizontally or weave vertically in a wavelike path.

Like all vibrations or wavelike disturbances, quantum mechanics implies that they can exist only in discrete units.

Kornglow was getting awfully tired of all these sudden moves, and the strange wavelike motions they involved tended to upset his stomach.

The wind of the morning, that blew to her across the wavelike dunes and the white plains, seemed impregnated with ice.

As they came towards the old wall which partially surrounds Amara, and which rises from a deep natural moat of sand, they saw that the ground immediately before the city which, from a distance, had looked almost fiat, was in reality broken up into a series of wavelike dunes, some small with depressions like deep crevices between them, others large with summits like plateaux.

Through his awakening senses stole the murmurs of the living cradle which rocked him with the wavelike movements of respiration, the soft susurrus of the air that entered with every breath, the double beat of the heart which throbbed close to his ear.

Instead of simply hitting the sand and staying there as she had the last time, she had instead thrown her body into a convulsive, wavelike movement as she hit the ground, her arching back and legs bouncing her off the sand and up into an impossible-looking hand-and-foot grip on the underside of the swoop.

The room was empty, now, allowing her footsteps to echo overhead from the intricate lierne vaulting with the wavelike, sweeping ribs.

This was composed of the rounded rocks which had been visible from the bridge, arranged in an oddly wavelike pattern whose crests extended across the direction of the current.

In fact, the recognition that all forms of energy shared this wavelike nature was one of the great achievements of nineteenth-century physics.

Where they had been greeted on their first venturing into this country by the plains of cracked yellow clay, and then passed into the place of red earth and veined foliage, now the ground showed wavelike stretches of a gray-blue coarse sand.

To his left Betared shivered in the grip of icy cold, the trees were festooned with icicles, and the snow drifted around them into wavelike mounds.

According to Bohm what we call empty space is the gravitational field, a huge background of energy where matter is a small quantified wavelike excitation on top of this background like a ripple on an ocean.

He rolled Cecelia up on one side, fighting the wavelike motion of the bed, and got foot and hand into the loose sleeves.

His body convulsed in wavelike spasms, which rippled through his flesh with almost audible force.