body wave

American  

noun

1. Geology. a transverse or longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth (surface wave ).

2. a permanent with little or no curl, designed to give fullness and body to the hair and to make it more manageable.

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body wave Scientific  

1. A seismic wave that travels through the Earth rather than across its surface. Body waves usually have smaller amplitudes and shorter wavelengths than surface waves and travel at higher speeds. Primary waves and secondary waves are body waves.

2. Compare surface wave

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Example Sentences

The 27 tests generated seismic signals whose ‘body wave’ magnitude ranged from 4.2 to 6.2.

From Scientific American

It was important to Morgan to get the texture right — hair that tended to get a little frizzy and would have been ironed straight in the early ‘70s. “I asked to have a body wave put into it so it would go frizzy.

From Los Angeles Times

“Take one step closer and examine your new body. Wave to yourself. You have now become Michael Sterling,” she said, in the neutral tone you’d use to tell someone he’s now Episcopalian.

From The New Yorker

The yields predicted so far vary because it depends on the precise formula used: which scaling relation of the yield as a function of body wave magnitude is used - and that depends on a variety of factors such as the depth and type of rock where the test was conducted, for example.

From BBC

Barnes, 29, stands in front of the mirrors and runs through a basic series of movements: a jump, a body wave, a neck isolation, a hip isolation, a shimmy, a march.

From Washington Post