WAVES
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
WAVES/weɪvz/
▶plural noun the women's section of the US Navy.
– origin acronym from Women Appointed (later Accepted) for Volunteer Emergency Service.
'WAVES' also found in these Oxford entries:
acoustic
- air
- alpha rhythm
- backwash
- beta rhythm
- break
- breakwater
- broach
- buffet
- chop
- choppy
- coherent
- crimp
- delta rhythm
- diffraction
- D-layer
- Doppler effect
- eardrum
- echo
- echocardiography
- E-layer
- electromagnetic radiation
- Faraday effect
- fetch
- filter
- focal point
- focus
- frequency
- fret
- halcyon
- head sea
- Hughie
- hydrophone
- incoherent
- infrasonic
- infrasound
- ionosphere
- kymograph
- lash
- lively
- longshore drift
- long wave
- lumpy
- magnetic resonance imaging
- medium wave
- microphone
- ondes martenot
- perm
- pulsar
- quadrature
