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Definition of Rolling wave
1. Noun. A long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rolling Wave
Literary usage of Rolling wave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"THE rolling wave The Mars Exploration Program's 26-month launch cycle is providing
the planetary science community with a rolling wave of Mars missions, ..."
2. A Treatise on Surveying by Reginald Empson Middleton, Osbert Chadwick, J. du T. Bogle (1911)
"In a rolling wave, the particles, in each horizontal parallel plane, ...
Drawing the section of a rolling wave to a greatly exaggerated vertical scale, ..."
3. A Treatise on Surveying by Reginald Empson Middleton, Osbert Chadwick, J. du T. Bogle (1902)
"In a rolling wave, the particles, in each horizontal parallel plane, ...
Drawing the section of a rolling wave to a greatly exaggerated vertical scale, ..."
4. Selections from the Christian Poets, Ancient and Modern (1851)
"FAIR sea! whose lines of rolling wave Flash back the gladsome day, And seem, as
the broad beach they lave, In murmurs soft to say, ' Is there a wand'rer on ..."
5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1890)
"To this end Rushing Wind bursts out into a regular cyclone, sending the tents
flying in all directions; and rolling wave rushes up in a tidal wave, ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1890)
"To this end Rushing Wind bursts out into a regular cyclone, sending the tents
flying in all directions; and rolling wave rushes up in a tidal wave, ..."
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