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wave-rider

wave-rider is the alternative form of waverider.

Meaning of waverider

Noun

waverider (plural waveriders)

  1. A hypersonic aircraft that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves generated by its own flight as a lifting surface.
  2. a surfer
  3. A surfing implement, such as a windsurfer board

Forms of wave-rider

pluralwave-riders

Questions about wave-rider

What is wave-rider the alternative form of?
Wave-rider is the alternative form of waverider.

Words near wave-rider in the dictionary

  1. wave-like
  2. wave-mechanical
  3. wave-particle
  4. wave-particle duality
  5. wave-particles
  6. wave-rider
  7. wave-riders
  8. wave-runner
  9. waveable
  10. waveband
  11. wavebands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wave-rider (page history and authors); waverider (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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