descending wave
1Wave cloud — This wave cloud pattern formed over the Île Amsterdam, in the lower left corner at the tip of the triangular formation, in the far southern Indian Ocean. A wave cloud is a cloud form created by atmospheric internal waves …
2wave — 1. A movement of particles in an elastic body, whether solid or fluid, whereby an advancing series of alternate elevations and depressions, or rarefactions and condensations, is produced. 2. The elevation of the pulse, felt by the finger, or… …
3descending limb — 1. the proximal part of the loop of Henle (see ansa nephroni [TA]). 2. the descending portion of a tracing of the pulse wave obtained by the manometer or the sphygmograph. Called also catacrotic l …
4The Wave, Arizona — The Wave is a sandstone formation on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, located in northern portion of the U.S. state of Arizona, just south of the Utah Arizona border about halfway between Kanab,… …
5Lee wave — The wind flows towards a mountain and produces a first oscillation (A) followed by more waves. the following waves will have lower amplitude because of the natural damping. Lenticular clouds stuck on top of the flow (A) and (B) will appear… …
6Belgian UFO wave — The Belgian UFO wave refers to a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from November 29, 1989 to April 1990. The sightings The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night… …
7standing wave — /stændɪŋ ˈweɪv/ (say standing wayv) noun 1. Also, stationary wave. Physics a distribution of wave displacements, such that the distribution in space is periodic, with fixed maximum and minimum points, with the maxima occurring everywhere at the… …
8sine wave — the waveform of an alternating current characterized by a rise from zero to maximum positive potential, descending back through zero to its maximum negative value, and then rising back to zero. Called also sinusoidal w. and sinusoidal waveform …
9Taido — ( 躰道 / taidō ) is a Japanese martial art created in 1965 by Seiken Shukumine (1925 2001). The word taidō means way of the body. Taido has its roots in traditional Okinawan Karate. Feeling that the martial arts, particularly karate, were not… …
10polycrotism — A condition in which the sphygmographic tracing shows several upward breaks in the descending wave. [poly + G. krotos, a beat] * * * pol·yc·ro·tism (pol ikґrə tiz əm) presence of a polycrotic pulse …
