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

The undulatory theory of energy is carrying everything before it.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

The undulatory theory of light, which maintains that light consists of waves transmitted through an ether, which pervades all space and all matter, owes its origin to Hooke and Huyghens.

From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William

Sound, is said to be propagated by the undulatory, or vibratory motion of the air.

From Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Jones, Thomas P.

Un′dulātive, undulatory; Un′dulātory, moving like waves: relating to the theory of light which considers its transmission as wave-motion in a medium filling space; Un′dulose, Un′dulous, undulating.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various