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