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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 plates
  2. wave pool
  3. wave pools
  4. wave power
  5. wave processing
  6. wave rider
  7. wave riders
  8. wave runner
  9. wave scroll
  10. wave scrolls
  11. wave shoaling

Source and license

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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