This is a list of wave topics.

0–9

  • 21 cm line

A

  • Abbe prism
  • Absorption spectroscopy
  • Absorption spectrum
  • Absorption wavemeter
  • Acoustic wave
  • Acoustic wave equation
  • Acoustics
  • Acousto-optic effect
  • Acousto-optic modulator
  • Acousto-optics
  • Airy disc
  • Airy wave theory
  • Alfvén wave
  • Alpha waves
  • Amphidromic point
  • Amplitude
  • Amplitude modulation
  • Animal echolocation
  • Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
  • Antiphase
  • Aquamarine Power
  • Arrayed waveguide grating
  • Artificial wave
  • Atmospheric diffraction
  • Atmospheric wave
  • Atmospheric waveguide
  • Atom laser
  • Atomic clock
  • Atomic mirror
  • Audience wave
  • Autowave
  • Averaged Lagrangian

B

  • Babinet's principle
  • Backward wave oscillator
  • Bandwidth-limited pulse
  • beat
  • Berry phase
  • Bessel beam
  • Beta wave
  • Black hole
  • Blazar
  • Bloch's theorem
  • Blueshift
  • Boussinesq approximation (water waves)
  • Bow wave
  • Bragg diffraction
  • Bragg's law
  • Breaking wave
  • Bremsstrahlung, Electromagnetic radiation
  • Brillouin scattering
  • Bullet bow shockwave
  • Burgers' equation
  • Business cycle

C

  • Capillary wave
  • Carrier wave
  • Cherenkov radiation
  • Chirp
  • Ernst Chladni
  • Circular polarization
  • Clapotis
  • Closed waveguide
  • Cnoidal wave
  • Coherence (physics)
  • Coherence length
  • Coherence time
  • Cold wave
  • Collimated light
  • Collimator
  • Compton effect
  • Comparison of analog and digital recording
  • Computation of radiowave attenuation in the atmosphere
  • Continuous phase modulation
  • Continuous wave
  • Convective heat transfer
  • Coriolis frequency
  • Coronal mass ejection
  • Cosmic microwave background radiation
  • Coulomb wave function
  • Cutoff frequency
  • Cutoff wavelength
  • Cymatics

D

  • Damped wave
  • Decollimation
  • Delta wave
  • Dielectric waveguide
  • Diffraction
  • Direction finding
  • Dispersion (optics)
  • Dispersion (water waves)
  • Dispersion relation
  • Dominant wavelength
  • Doppler effect
  • Doppler radar
  • Douglas Sea Scale
  • Draupner wave
  • Droplet-shaped wave
  • Duhamel's principle

E

  • E-skip
  • Earthquake
  • Echo (phenomenon)
  • Echo sounding
  • Echolocation (animal)
  • Echolocation (human)
  • Eddy (fluid dynamics)
  • Edge wave
  • Eikonal equation
  • Ekman layer
  • Ekman spiral
  • Ekman transport
  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation
  • Electroencephalography
  • Electromagnetic electron wave
  • Electromagnetic radiation
  • Electromagnetic wave
  • Electromagnetic wave cut-off
  • Electron
  • Elliott wave
  • Elliptical polarization
  • Emission spectrum
  • Envelope (waves)
  • Equatorial Rossby wave
  • Equatorial waves
  • Essential bandwidth
  • Evanescent wave
  • Extratropical cyclone
  • Extremely low frequency

F

  • F wave
  • Fabry–Pérot interferometer
  • Faraday wave
  • Fetch (geography)
  • Fourier series
  • Fraunhofer diffraction
  • Fraunhofer distance
  • Freak wave
  • French New Wave
  • Frequency
  • Frequency modulation
  • Fresnel diffraction
  • Fresnel equations
  • Fresnel integral
  • Fresnel lens
  • Fresnel number
  • Fresnel rhomb
  • Fresnel zone
  • Fresnel–Arago laws
  • Fundamental frequency

G

  • Gamma ray
  • Gamma ray burst
  • Gamma wave
  • Gaussian beam
  • Geometric optics, Geometrical optics
  • Geostrophic current
  • Gravitational radiation
  • Gravity wave
  • Groundwave
  • Group delay
  • Group velocity

H

  • Harmonic
  • Heat wave
  • Holography
  • Human echolocation
  • Hundred-year wave
  • Hurricane
  • Huygens' principle
  • Hydraulic jump
  • Hydrography
  • Hydropower
  • Hyperbolic partial differential equation

I

  • In phase
  • Inertial wave
  • Infragravity wave
  • Infrared gas analyzer
  • Inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation
  • Interference (wave propagation)
  • Interferometry
  • Internal wave
  • Inverse scattering transform
  • Ion acoustic wave
  • Irradiance

J

  • Japanese New Wave

K

  • Kelvin wave
  • Kinematic wave
  • Knife-edge effect
  • Kondratiev wave

L

  • Lamb waves
  • Landau damping
  • Lee wave
  • Linear elasticity
  • Linear polarization
  • List of New Wave movements
  • List of waves named after people
  • Long wavelength limit
  • Longitudinal mode
  • Longitudinal wave
  • Longwave
  • Love wave

M

  • Mach wave
  • Mach–Zehnder interferometer
  • Maelstrom (disambiguation)
  • Magnetometer
  • Magnetosonic wave
  • Matter wave
  • Maxwell's equations
  • Mayer waves
  • Mechanical wave
  • Medical ultrasonography
  • Mediumwave
  • Megatsunami
  • Microbarom
  • Microwave
  • Microwave auditory effect
  • Microwave oven
  • Microwave plasma
  • Microwaving
  • Mie scattering
  • Millimeter cloud radar
  • Modulation
  • Monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave
  • Monochromator
  • Moonlight
  • Morning Glory cloud
  • Mu wave
  • Multipath propagation

N

  • Neural oscillation
  • Neutron
  • New Wave (competition)
  • New Wave (design)
  • New Wave (manga)
  • New Wave (science fiction)
  • New wave music in Yugoslavia
  • New wave music
  • New wave of American heavy metal
  • New wave of British heavy metal
  • New wave of traditional heavy metal
  • Nondispersive infrared sensor
  • Nonlinear Schrödinger equation
  • Nonlinear wave
  • Nonlinear X-wave
  • Normal mode

O

  • Ocean surface wave
  • One-Way Wave Equation
  • Optical fiber
  • Optical waveguide
  • Oscillon
  • Out of phase
  • Outgoing longwave radiation
  • Overtone
  • Oyster wave energy converter

P

  • P-wave
  • Parabolic reflector
  • Periodic function
  • Periodic travelling wave
  • Phase (waves)
  • Phase difference
  • Phase modulation
  • Phase velocity
  • Phonon
  • Photon
  • Pitch shifter (audio processor)
  • Planck constant
  • Planck's law
  • Plane wave
  • Polarization (waves)
  • Ponto-geniculo-occipital waves, PGO waves
  • Power standing wave ratio
  • pp-wave spacetime
  • Pressure wave
  • Prism
  • Proton
  • Pulsar
  • Pulsar wind nebula
  • Pulse wave velocity
  • Pulse-density modulation

Q

  • QT interval
  • quadrature
  • Quadrature amplitude modulation
  • Quantum optics
  • Quantum tunneling
  • Quantum Zeno effect

R

  • Radar
  • Radar astronomy
  • Radar cross section
  • Radar gun
  • Radio propagation
  • Radio wave
  • Radiosity (heat transfer)
  • Rayleigh scattering
  • Rayleigh wave
  • Rayleigh–Jeans law
  • Redshift
  • Reflection coefficient
  • Reflection seismology
  • Refraction
  • Relativistic Doppler effect
  • Resonance
  • Resonator
  • Ring laser gyroscope
  • Ring modulation
  • Ring wave guide
  • Rip current
  • ripple
  • Ripple tank
  • Rogue wave (oceanography)
  • Rossby wave
  • Rossby-gravity waves
  • Rydberg constant
  • Rydberg formula

S

  • S-wave
  • Sampling (signal processing)
  • Sawtooth wave
  • Schrödinger equation
  • Sea state
  • Seiche
  • Seismic wave
  • Seismograph
  • Seismology
  • Sellmeier equation
  • Shallow water equations
  • Shive wave machine
  • Shock wave
  • Shortwave radio
  • Signal velocity
  • Significant wave height
  • Sine wave
  • Single-sideband modulation
  • Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation
  • Skywave
  • Slow-wave potential
  • Slow-wave sleep
  • Sneaker wave
  • Solitary wave
  • Soliton
  • Sonar
  • Sonic anemometers
  • Sound wave
  • Spark-gap transmitter
  • Spectroscopy
  • Speed of gravity
  • Speed of light
  • Speed of sound
  • Spike-and-wave
  • Spin wave
  • Square wave
  • Standing wave
  • Standing wave ratio
  • Stefan–Boltzmann law
  • Stokes drift
  • Stokes wave
  • Subharmonic
  • Super low frequency
  • Superharmonic
  • Superposition principle
  • Supersonic Wave Filter
  • Surface acoustic wave
  • Surface wave
  • Surface wave inversion
  • Surface-wave magnitude
  • Surface-wave-sustained discharge
  • Surfing
  • Sverdrup wave
  • Swell (ocean)
  • Synthetic-aperture radar

T

  • T wave
  • Terrestrial gamma-ray flash
  • Terrestrial stationary waves
  • Theta wave
  • Tidal bore
  • Tidal power
  • Tidal resonance
  • Tide
  • Tired light theory
  • Transverse mode
  • Transverse wave
  • Traveling plane wave
  • Traveling wave antenna
  • Traveling wave reactor
  • Traveling-wave tube
  • Triangle wave
  • Trigonometric function
  • Trojan wave packet
  • Tropical wave
  • Tsunami
  • Turbidity current

U

  • Ultra low frequency
  • Ultrasound
  • Ultraviolet catastrophe
  • Undertow (wave action)
  • Underwater wave
  • Undular bore

V

  • Velocity factor
  • Vestigial-sideband modulation
  • Vibrating string
  • Voltage standing wave ratio
  • Vortex
  • Vorticity

W

  • Wake
  • Wave (audience)
  • Wave base
  • Wave disk engine
  • Wave drag
  • Wave equation
  • Wave farm
  • Wave field synthesis
  • Wave function
  • Wave function collapse
  • Wave height
  • Wave impedance
  • Wave loading
  • Wave motor
  • Wave packet
  • Wave period
  • Wave plate
  • Wave pool
  • Wave pounding
  • Wave power
  • Wave propagation
  • Wave shoaling
  • Wave surface
  • Wave tank
  • Wave turbulence
  • Wave vector
  • Wave velocity
  • Wave–current interaction
  • Wave-cut platform
  • Wave-making resistance
  • Waveform
  • Waveform monitor
  • Wave-formed ripple
  • Wavefront
  • Wavefunction
  • Wavefunction collapse
  • Waveguide
  • Waveguide (acoustics)
  • Waveguide (electromagnetism)
  • Waveguide (optics)
  • Waveguide flange
  • Wavelength
  • Wavelength selective switching
  • Wavelength-division multiplexing
  • Wavelet
  • Wavelet transform
  • Wavenumber
  • Zonal wavenumber
  • Wavenumber-frequency diagram
  • Wave–particle duality
  • Waverider
  • Waves and shallow water
  • Waves in plasmas
  • Whitham's method
  • Wien approximation
  • Wien's displacement law
  • Wien's law
  • Wind wave
  • Windsurfing

X

  • X-band radar
  • X-ray
  • X-wave

Z

  • Zero-dispersion slope
  • Zero-dispersion wavelength
  • Zigzag
  • Zodiacal light
  • Zone plate