Wave (disambiguation)

A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space.

Wave or waves may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

Wave (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Universe
Wave the Swallow, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
Wave, a character in Agame ga Kill!

Literature and writing

Wave (magazine), an English-language, monthly magazine in Nepal
Wave (Deraniyagala book), a 2013 memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave Books, an American publisher

Music

The wave (music), a movement of post-hardcore
Wave music, an electronic bass music genre

People

Rod Wave, American singer and rapper

Bands

Wave (band), a Canadian pop band
Waves (band), a New Zealand folk rock band
Wavves, an American rock band

Albums

Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album), 1967
Wave (Patti Smith Group album), 1979
Wave (T-Square album), 1989
Wave (Murray Head album), 1992
Wave (CNBLUE album), 2014
Wave (Patrick Watson album), 2019
Wave (Ive EP), 2023
Wave (WEi EP), 2024

Songs

"Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim song), 1967
"Wave" (Asake and Central Cee song), 2024
"Wave" (Beck song), 2014
"Wave" (Meghan Trainor song), 2019
"Wave", a 2018 song by Justin Timberlake from Man of the Woods
"Wave", a song by Ateez from the album Treasure EP.3: One to All

Radio and television stations

DWAV, an FM radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines formerly known as Wave 89.1 (2001–2024)
WAVE (TV), an American television station
Wave FM, a former radio station in Dundee
WAVE Radio, a radio station in Belize City
WGTK (AM), a radio station in Louisville, Kentucky formerly operated as WAVE
CHKX-FM, Canadian radio station known as Wave 947
Wave, a pair of television idents for BBC Two; see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents

Businesses and organizations

Wave (financial services and software), a Canadian company
Wave Broadband, an American service provider
WAVE Trust, Worldwide Alternatives to Violence, a charity
WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, a former branch of the U.S. Navy
Waves Audio, an Israeli company
Women Against Violence Europe

Politics

Landslide victory, in electoral politics
Wave elections in the United States
Conservative wave, a political phenomenon in the mid-2010s to early 2020s in Latin America

Sport

Milwaukee Wave, an American soccer team
Pepperdine Waves, the athletic program of Pepperdine University, U.S.
Wilmington Waves, an American baseball team

Technology

WAV, Waveform Audio File Format, also known as WAVE
Wave (smart speaker), by Naver Corporation and Line Corporation
WAVE, Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments, alias for IEEE 802.11p wireless standard
Apache Wave, formerly Google Wave, a software framework
Wave, a 2014 iOS 8 hoax feature
PV-Wave, a programming language
WebAIM WAVE, an accessibility evaluation tool
Samsung Wave, a smartphone developed and produced by Samsung Electronics
Samsung Wave II, a smartphone developed and produced by Samsung Electronics

Vehicles

, a sailing vessel wrecked in 1848
, operated by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1840–1841; see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
, the name of several United States Navy ships
Airwave Wave, an Austrian paraglider design
Bajaj Wave, a motor scooter
Honda Wave series, motorcycles
Pontiac Wave, a car

Other uses

Wind wave or swell, surface wave on waterbodies generated by wind and gravity equilibrium
Wave (audience), or Mexican wave, when successive spectators raise their arms
Wave (gesture), involving moving one's hand
Wave (typeface)
Waves (hairstyle), a hairstyle for curly hair