undulation
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7.5
- noun
- /ˌʌndʒəˈleɪʃən/
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undulación
- The landscape featured beautiful undulations that resembled gentle hills.
It was just constant undulation over fields and pastures and up and down monstrous hills.
- It was just constant undulation over fields and pastures and up and down monstrous hills.
Examples
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I saw a special on television, and I saw dancers, they were dancing with an undulation and a smoothness and a fierceness.
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The soft undulations of his computer screen, microscopic waves on a microscopic sea.
Fiction book (2000) -
This is just going to give us our height, our undulation, any sort of form underneath.
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I feel the ship roll under my feet, an undulation as gentle as a breath.
Fiction book (1995) -
Their sally was made all the more difficult by the undulations in the sand.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is a lot more used for things like pin holes, tiny cracks, little undulations in the surface of something.
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It was just constant undulation over fields and pastures and up and down monstrous hills.
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All the usual greenery, undulations, and grey statues.
Fiction book (1990) -
I get torrential rains, so any turns and undulations in gutters and downspouts are a problem.
Blog text (31) -
In the evening, casual flocks of pigeons make ambiguous undulations as they sink.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
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1.0
A moving ridge of water or a traveling motion such as sound and light
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2.3
Small waves that move on the surface of water
Antonyms
How Wavy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word undulation comes from the Latin root unda, meaning 'wave', so you can picture a smooth rise and fall like a sea wave. That's why an undulation is a gentle, wavelike shape or movement.