Undulate

['ʌndjʊleɪt] or ['ʌndʒə'let]

Definition

(verb.) increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; 'The singer's voice undulated'.

(adj.) having a wavy margin and rippled surface .

Typed by Deirdre--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Same as Undulated.

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

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

Edited by Dwight

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Wave, fluctuate, move up and down.

Editor: Seth

Definition

v.t. to wave or to move like waves: to cause to vibrate.—v.i. to wave: to vibrate.—adj. wavy.—adj. Un′dulant undulating.—adv. Un′dulātely.—adj. Un′dulāting.—adv. Un′dulātingly.—ns. Undulā′tion an undulating: a waving motion or vibration: waviness a set of waved lines: a feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart: the peculiar motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening; Undulā′tionist one who holds an undulatory theory.—adjs. Un′dulātive undulatory; Un′dulātory moving like waves: relating to the theory of light which considers its transmission as wave-motion in a medium filling space; Un′dulose Un′dulous undulating.

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