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shock waves

shock waves is the plural of shock wave.

Meaning of shock wave

Noun

shock wave (plural shock waves)

  1. A powerful compression wave produced by the movement of a body through a fluid or gas at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound.
  2. (figuratively) Any violent disturbance.
    • As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times

Questions about shock waves

What is shock waves the plural of?
Shock waves is the plural of shock wave.

Words near shock waves in the dictionary

  1. shock treatments
  2. shock troop
  3. shock troops
  4. shock value
  5. shock wave
  6. shock waves
  7. shock worker
  8. shock workers
  9. shock-headed
  10. shock-stall
  11. shock-stalled

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