Noun
shock wave (plural shock waves)
- (physics) A powerful compression wave produced by the movement of a body through a fluid or gas at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound.
- (figuratively) Any violent disturbance.
2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times:As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:To lose against Liverpool is a painful business at any time but to be on the receiving end of what was a record defeat in this fixture will send shock waves through Old Trafford.
Translations
powerful compression wave
- Afrikaans: skokgolf
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: موجة صادمة
- Armenian: հարվածային ալիք (hy) (harvacayin alikʻ)
- Azerbaijani: zərbə dalğası
- Basque: talka-uhin
- Belarusian: ударная хваля f (udarnaja xvalja)
- Bengali: ঘাত তরঙ্গ (ghat toroṅgo)
- Bulgarian: ударна вълна f (udarna vǎlna)
- Catalan: ona de xoc f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 衝擊波 / 冲击波 (cung1 gik1 bo1)
- Mandarin: 激波 (zh) (jībō) (mainland China), 震波 (zh) (zhènbō) (Taiwan), 衝擊波 / 冲击波 (zh) (chōngjībō)
- Czech: rázová vlna f
- Danish: chokbølge c
- Dutch: schokgolf (nl) m
- Esperanto: ŝokondo
- Estonian: lööklaine (et)
- Finnish: iskuaalto, paineaalto (fi)
- French: onde de choc (fr) f
- Galician: onda de choque f
- Georgian: დარტყმითი ტალღა (darṭq̇miti ṭalɣa)
- German: Stoßwelle (de) f, Schockwelle (de) f
- Hebrew: גל הלם
- Hungarian: lökéshullám (hu)
- Indonesian: gelombang kejut
- Irish: tonn turrainge
- Italian: onda d'urto f
- Japanese: 衝撃波 (ja) (しょうげきは, shōgekiha)
- Kazakh: соққы толқыны (soqqy tolqyny)
- Korean: 충격파(衝擊波) (chunggyeokpa)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: smūginė banga f
- Malay: gelombang kejutan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjokkbølge m or f
- Nynorsk: sjokkbølgje f, sjokkbylgje f
- Persian: موج ضربهای
- Polish: fala uderzeniowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: onda de choque f
- Romanian: undă de șoc (ro) f
- Russian: уда́рная волна́ (ru) f (udárnaja volná)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: onda de choque f, onda expansiva f, onda de shock f
- Swedish: chockvåg (sv), chockfront
- Thai: คลื่นกระแทก
- Turkish: şok dalgası
- Ukrainian: ударна хвиля f (udarna xvylja)
- Uzbek: zarba toʻlqini
- Vietnamese: sóng xung kích (vi) (㳥衝擊)
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