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Meaning of "undulatory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDULATORY

undulatory  [ˈʌndjʊlətərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDULATORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Undulatory is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNDULATORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of undulatory in the English dictionary

The definition of undulatory in the dictionary is caused by or characterized by waves or undulations. Other definition of undulatory is having a wavelike motion or form.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDULATORY


ambulatory
ˈæmbjʊlətərɪ
condolatory
kənˈdəʊlətərɪ
confabulatory
kənˈfæbjʊlətərɪ
deambulatory
diːˈæmbjʊlətərɪ
dilatory
ˈdɪlətərɪ
ejaculatory
ɪˈdʒækjʊlətərɪ
emasculatory
ɪˈmæskjʊlətərɪ
funambulatory
fjuːˈnæmbjʊlətərɪ
interjaculatory
ˌɪntəˈdʒækjʊlətərɪ
manipulatory
məˈnɪpjʊlətərɪ
modulatory
ˈmɒdjʊlətərɪ
osculatory
ˈɒskjʊlətərɪ
osmoregulatory
ˌɒzməʊˈrɛɡjʊlətərɪ
ovulatory
ˈɒvjʊlətərɪ
perambulatory
pəˈræmbjʊlətərɪ
preovulatory
priːˈɒvjʊlətərɪ
simulatory
ˈsɪmjʊlətərɪ
speculatory
ˈspɛkjʊlətərɪ
stimulatory
ˈstɪmjʊlətərɪ
stipulatory
ˈstɪpjʊlətərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDULATORY

undulance
undulancy
undulant
undulant fever
undular
undulate
undulate ray
undulately
undulating
undulatingly
undulation
undulationist
undulator
undulled
undulous
unduly
unduplicated
undutiful
undutifully
undutifulness

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDULATORY

anti-inflammatory
circulatory
conservatory
defamatory
derogatory
directory
discriminatory
explanatory
exploratory
inflammatory
laboratory
mandatory
obligatory
observatory
oscillatory
participatory
predatory
preparatory
regulatory
research laboratory
respiratory

Synonyms and antonyms of undulatory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «undulatory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDULATORY

Find out the translation of undulatory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of undulatory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «undulatory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

波动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ondulatoria
570 millions of speakers

English

undulatory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

undulatory
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتموج و
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

волнообразный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ondulatória
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তরঙ্গিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ondulatoire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undulat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wellenförmig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

波動の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Undulatory
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

undulatory
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலைஅலையான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पातळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dalgalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ondulatorio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

falisty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хвилеподібний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ondulatoriu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οδοντωτής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

golvend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vågformig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

undulatory
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of undulatory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDULATORY»

The term «undulatory» is normally little used and occupies the 113.145 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDULATORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about undulatory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDULATORY»

Discover the use of undulatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to undulatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On the Undulatory Theory of Optics, designed for the use of ...
George Biddell Airy. gations. In our ignorance of the law of intensity of the vibrations propagated from a center in different directions, we have supposed the intensity equal in all directions: and yet with this supposition we have found that when ...
George Biddell Airy, 1866
2
Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming IX: Proceedings of the ...
The purpose of our study was to compare the values of St and other kinematic variables related with it, between swimmers of different level of performance during undulatory underwater swimming (UUS). Two groups of swimmers participated ...
Jean-Claude Chatard, 2003
3
The Historical Development of Quantum Theory
He did not want to stop at that incomplete state of analogy, however, in which one invoked only geometrical or a very primitive form of undulatory optics in the limit of sufficiently small wavelengths — i.e., when the wavelengths were small ...
Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, 2001
4
Deformation Microstructures and Mechanisms in Minerals and Rocks
Undulatory extinction is visible in cross-polarized light when a single crystal has variable extinction positions (Fig. 4.5). The extinction position may change consistently from one end of a crystal to the other, producing a continuous sweep of ...
Tom G. Blenkinsop, 2000
5
The Effect of Undulatory Stimulation Upon Cutaneous Adaptation
"... This experiment was designed to determine the amount of adaptation which occurs when the skin is subjected to a constant, undulatory stimulation. ..."--summary.
William Preston Albaugh, 1948
6
Patent Pending in 24 Hours
There are many ways of producing undulatory currents of electricity, dependent for effect upon the vibrations or motions of bodies (5) capable of inductive action. A few of the methods that may be employed I shall here specify. When a wire ...
Richard Stim, David Pressman, 2009
7
Aether and Gravitation
undulatory theory to have any existence at all, it is essential that the Aether should possess the property of elasticity. But how the Aether possessed the property of elasticity while at the same time it was frictionless, and therefore possessed no ...
William George Hooper
8
Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ...
On the Absorption of Light by coloured Media, viewed in connexion with the undulatory Theory. By Sir John F. W. Herschel, F.R.S. The absorption of light by coloured media having been of late regarded as offering peculiar difficulties when ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting, 1834
9
The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha ...
There are many ways of producing undulatory currents of electricity, depending for e›ect upon the vibrations or motions of bodies capable of inductive action. A few of the methods that may be employed I shall here specify. When a wire ...
A. Edward Evenson, 2000
10
Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on ...
Although one method of crawling is both more common and less readily ex-' plicable than the rest, snakes actually employ four different kinds of propulsion to which the following names have been applied: Horizontal undulatory, rectilinear,  ...
Laurence Monroe Klauber, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDULATORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term undulatory is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nano-robots could swim in human blood stream
When an oscillating magnetic field was applied to the devices in the thick blood-like fluid, the nano-robot moved in an S-like, undulatory motion at the speed of ... «ElectronicsWeekly.com, Jul 15»
2
Toward nanorobots that swim through blood to deliver drugs (w/video)
Now scientists are reporting in the ACS journal Nano Letters ("Undulatory Locomotion of Magnetic Multilink Nanoswimmers") the development of new ... «Nanowerk, Jun 15»
3
Japanese Spacecraft to Attempt Venus Comeback in December
... the radius of Venus, the orbiter will conduct close-up observations to clarify cloud convection, the distribution of minute undulatory motions and their changes.". «Space.com, Apr 15»
4
Review: Kate Weare Company Celebrates 10th Anniversary at BAM …
This undulatory trio for Mr. Spaur, Julian De Leon and the striking Nicole Diaz, set to Curtis Macdonald's alternately growling and pulsing score, is still tense, but ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
5
Why Eel Drones Are the Future of Naval Warfare
Here's how they explained their findings: “The undulatory pump mechanism (employed by the anguilliform kinematic movement) can produce more thrust at low ... «Defense One, Dec 14»
6
Lunch with my former boss, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter
Even his signature undulatory coif looked relaxed. He also employs many Canadians. But why shouldn't he be relaxed? One of the longest-standing editors at ... «The Globe and Mail, Nov 14»
7
Eel-Like Robotic Fish to Scan Inaccessible Ocean Areas
A snake-like form also gives the Anguilliform robot amphibious potential, due to the similarity in undulatory locomotion in water and on solid ground. The robotic ... «NDTV, Nov 14»
8
An eel-lectrifying future for autonomous underwater robots
A snake-like form also gives the Anguilliform Robot amphibious potential, owing to the similarity in undulatory locomotion in water and on solid ground. «EurekAlert, Nov 14»
9
First look: 2015 Nissan Murano keeps concept car lines
... were somewhere between surprised and shocked that the undulatory exterior and wacky roof pillars of the concept hadn't been dulled down in production trim ... «AutoWeek, Jul 14»
10
A Premiere for Ronald K. Brown's Evidence at the Joyce
... ensemble — “Ife/My Heart” (2001) and “Torch” (2013) — show Mr. Brown at his most euphoric, weaving intricate tapestries of earthbound, undulatory motion. «New York Times, Jun 14»

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