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undă
wave (a physical wave: radio, sound, seismic, or a ripple on water) /ˈundə/
noun#4667 most common
Also: ripple
Example sentences
Piatra a făcut o undă mică pe suprafața apei.
The stone made a small ripple on the surface of the water.
Undele radio ne aduc muzică din toată lumea.
Radio waves bring us music from all over the world.
Sunetul se propagă prin aer sub formă de undă.
Sound travels through the air in the form of a wave.
Cutremurul a generat unde seismice resimțite la sute de kilometri distanță.
The earthquake generated seismic waves felt hundreds of kilometers away.
Fizicienii studiază cum se comportă unda de lumină în vid.
Physicists study how a light wave behaves in a vacuum.
Undele electromagnetice emise de antenă se propagă cu viteza luminii, fenomen descris riguros de ecuațiile lui Maxwell.
The electromagnetic waves emitted by the antenna propagate at the speed of light, a phenomenon rigorously described by Maxwell's equations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | undă | unde |
| Genitive | unde | unde |
| Accusative | undă | unde |
| Vocative | undă | unde |
Word family
undăwave
unduioswavy, undulating
a unduito undulate, ripple
unduireundulation, rippling motion
microundămicrowave
Etymology
Undă comes from Latin unda, meaning wave. Latin unda is usually traced to the PIE root *wed-, the same root behind English water and Greek hydor. Romanian narrowed undă mostly to scientific and literary senses of wave, while val became the everyday word for a sea wave.
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