compression wave

My throat clamped up, a compression wave that traveled down my chest and into my stomach.

He even had some prescient hunches about the mechanism of blast’s effects: the compression wave, the concussion and the toxic gases.

It’s referred to as a compression wave.

The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go�just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments.

He knew the compression wave caused by his movement would warn all living creatures.