undulatory

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A rush of energy follows the introspective opening, as more dancers arrive, joining together in full-bodied, undulatory movement that integrates the fast-paced, stamping footwork of Tswana.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

Later, other investigators discovered light phenomena which could be explained only on the undulatory hypothesis, and so, little by little, the new theory gained ground and adherents.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by Widtsoe, John Andreas

Looking internally, the country exhibited a strong undulatory surface, variously chequered with wild heaths and rich cultivation. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.

It should be remarked that this phenomenon of the production of circles of precipitate separated by transparent spaces, although periodic, is not of necessity vibratory or undulatory.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

Even here there is traceable an undulatory movement which, as Herbert Spencer says, is “habitually generated by feeling in its bodily discharge.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various