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

See also

• Wav (disambiguation)

• Waves (disambiguation)

• The Wave (disambiguation)

• Blue Wave (disambiguation)

• Great Wave (disambiguation)

• Wave model (disambiguation)

• Wave, Wave, a South Korean soap opera