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Definition of New wave

1. Noun. An art movement in French cinema in the 1960s.

2. Noun. Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts).

Definition of New wave

1. Noun. Any of several movements in music film which are or were considered cutting edge. ¹

2. Adjective. Representing the latest and most advanced style; trendy; faddish. ¹

3. Noun. A pop and rock music genre that existed during the late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s, incorporating punk beats and synthesized sounds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of New wave

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"It is evident that these secondary waves are enveloped by the spherical surface A'B', and this surface is the new wave-front. If the luminous point is at a ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"new wave-LENGTH SPECTROSCOPE (CONSTANT DEVIATION!, ii THE WAVE-LENGTH SPECTROSCOPE shown in the accompanying print has the following advantages:— i. ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"In 1255 a new wave of conquest rolled westward from Mongolia, this time directed against the Is- ii:i'-ii or " Assassins'1 on the south of the til* ..."

4. Elements of Physics, Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical: Explained by Neil Arnott (1831)
"Owing to the friction among the particles of the water, each new wave is less raised than the preceding, and at last the appearance dies away. ..."

5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"Likewise the movement at c will reach the circle c'c', and so on; since the new radii are equal, the new wave front will everywhere be parallel to the ..."

6. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"Likewise the movement at c will reach the circle c'c', and so on; since the new radii are equal, the new wave front will everywhere be parallel to the ..."

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