Wave (disambiguation)

A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space.

Wave or waves may also refer to:

Fictional characters

 * Wave (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Universe
 * Wave the Swallow, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
 * Wave, a character in Agame ga Kill!

Literature and writing

 * Wave (magazine), an English-language, monthly magazine in Nepal
 * Wave (Deraniyagala book), a 2013 memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala
 * Wave Books, an American publisher

Music

 * Wave music, an electronic bass music genre

Bands

 * Wave (band), a Canadian pop band
 * Waves (band), a New Zealand folk rock band
 * Wavves, an American rock band

Albums

 * Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album), 1967
 * Wave (Patti Smith Group album), 1979
 * Wave (T-Square album), 1989
 * Wave (Murray Head album), 1992
 * Wave (CNBLUE album), 2014
 * Wave (Patrick Watson album), 2019
 * Wave (Ive EP), 2023
 * Wave (WEi EP), 2024

Songs

 * "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim song), 1967
 * "Wave" (Asake and Central Cee song), 2024
 * "Wave" (Beck song), 2014
 * "Wave" (Meghan Trainor song), 2019
 * "Wave", a 2018 song by Justin Timberlake from Man of the Woods
 * "Wave", a song by Ateez from the album Treasure EP.3: One to All

Radio and television stations

 * WAVE (TV), an American television station
 * WAVE Radio, a radio station in Belize City
 * CHKX-FM, Canadian radio station known as Wave 947
 * Wave, a pair of television idents for BBC Two; see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents

Businesses and organizations

 * Wave (financial services and software), a Canadian company
 * Wave Broadband, an American service provider
 * WAVE Trust, Worldwide Alternatives to Violence, a charity
 * WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, a former branch of the U.S. Navy
 * Waves Audio, an Israeli company
 * Women Against Violence Europe

Politics

 * Landslide victory, in electoral politics
 * Wave elections in the United States
 * Conservative wave, a political phenomenon in the mid-2010s to early 2020s in Latin America

Sport

 * Milwaukee Wave, an American soccer team
 * Pepperdine Waves, the athletic program of Pepperdine University, U.S.
 * Wilmington Waves, an American baseball team

Technology

 * WAV, Waveform Audio File Format, also known as WAVE
 * Wave (smart speaker), by Naver Corporation and Line Corporation
 * Apache Wave, formerly Google Wave, a software framework
 * Wave, a 2014 iOS 8 hoax feature
 * PV-Wave, a programming language
 * WebAIM WAVE, an accessibility evaluation tool

Vehicles

 * Wave, a sailing vessel wrecked in 1848
 * Wave, operated by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1840–1841; see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
 * USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships
 * Airwave Wave, an Austrian paraglider design
 * Bajaj Wave, a motor scooter
 * Honda Wave series, motorcycles
 * Pontiac Wave, a car

Other uses

 * Wave (audience), or Mexican wave, when successive spectators raise their arms
 * Wave (gesture), involving moving one's hand
 * Wave (typeface)
 * Waves (hairstyle), a hairstyle for curly hair