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Flutist :: Flutist (n.) To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan..

Undulation :: Undulation (n.) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin..

Undulationist :: Undulationist (n.) One who advocates the undulatory theory of light.

Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake..

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation..

Ripple :: Ripple (n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Stylus :: Stylus (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond..

Waved :: Waved (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc..

Purl :: Purl (v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle..

Undulate :: Undulate (v. i.) To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air..

Undulative :: Undulative (a.) Consisting in, or accompanied by, undulations; undulatory..

Undulation :: Undulation (n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration..

Undulation :: Undulation (n.) The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound..

Undulate :: Undulate (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate..

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp..

Curl :: Curl (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

Scroll :: Scroll (n.) An ornament formed of undulations giving off spirals or sprays, usually suggestive of plant form. Roman architectural ornament is largely of some scroll pattern..

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