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undulating

undulating adjective: moving up and down like waves; wavy. Also the present participle and gerund of undulate.

Adjective

undulating (comparative more undulating, superlative most undulating)

  1. Moving up and down like waves; wavy.
    • From Belgrade the train is hauled by a 2-10-0, and makes good time through undulating country, with vineyards and herds of woolly pigs, over single line to Nish, where the Sofia and Istanbul portion, including through coaches (until recently) from Prague to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is...1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731
    • The Borinage coalfield around Mons is another attractive area for the railway enthusiast; it is rather like South Lancashire, with its gently undulating landscape studded with slag heaps and pithead gear and criss-crossed by railway lines and tramways.1960 February, J. N. Faulkner, “The Belgian Railways today”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86
  2. Forming a series of regular curves.
    • Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound...1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey

Noun

undulating (plural undulatings)

  1. undulation
    • In good poetry every word and phrase, as Professor McKail says, reverberates like the sound of a lyre, and leaves after it numberless undulatings. The verse exhales sweet sound, and light-like thought, as perfumes do; but we cannot explain just why.1930, John Thomas Ingram Bryan, The Philosophy of English Literature, page 27

Also used as

undulating is also the present participle and gerund of undulate.

Forms of undulating

Adjective
comparativemore undulating
superlativemost undulating
Noun
pluralundulatings

Words formed from undulating

Questions about undulating

What does undulating mean?
Undulating means moving up and down like waves; wavy.
What part of speech is undulating?
Undulating can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near undulating in the dictionary

  1. undulated antshrikes
  2. undulated tinamou
  3. undulated tinamous
  4. undulately
  5. undulates
  6. undulating
  7. undulatingly
  8. undulatings
  9. undulation
  10. undulationism
  11. undulationist

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