#__1_ = line of origin Signifies the original position of the medium. #__3_ = wavelength The distance between two consecutive crests. #__4_ = amplitude The distance from the line of origin to a crest or trough of a wave.

Characteristics of Longitudinal Waves. As in the case of transverse waves the following properties can be defined for longitudinal waves: wavelength, amplitude, period, frequency and wave speed. However instead of peaks and troughs, longitudinal waves have compressions and rarefactions.

Amplitude, in physics, the maximum displacement or distance moved by a point on a vibrating body or wave measured from its equilibrium position. It is equal to one-half the length of the vibration path. Waves are generated by vibrating sources, their amplitude being proportional to the amplitude of the source.

Waves come in two kinds, longitudinal and transverse. Transverse waves are like those on water, with the surface going up and down, and longitudinal waves are like of those of sound, consisting of alternating compressions and rarefactions in a medium.

They can be transverse or longitudinal. However, all waves have common properties—amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and speed.

Anatomy of a Wave. The highest part of the wave is called the crest. The lowest part is called the trough. The wave height is the overall vertical change in height between the crest and the trough and distance between two successive crests (or troughs) is the length of the wave or wavelength.

The highest surface part of a wave is called the crest, and the lowest part is the trough. The vertical distance between the crest and the trough is the wave height. The horizontal distance between two adjacent crests or troughs is known as the wavelength. If wind speed is slow, only small waves result.

In surfing, a closeout wave is a wave that breaks all at once, abruptly from end to end, and doesn’t allow surfers to ride it because it doesn’t offer a non-vertical wall. A common mistake by surfing beginners is to paddle into all waves, even when some of them are unsurfable, closeout waves.

Bomb means a very large wave, well beyond the session’s normal wave size. A short, soft foam board used for bodyboarding. Also known as a body board. To take off from a wave into an aerial, to jump from the lip of a wave.

Wahine

Just remember, surfers tend to speak in one- and two-word sentences, and those words tend to be shortened. That’s rad. Totally bitchin’. Awesome.

The word “wahine” came into English in the late 18th century from Maori, the language of a Polynesian people native to New Zealand; it was originally used for a Maori woman, especially a wife. The word is also used for a woman in Hawaiian and Tahitian, though spelled “vahine” in the latter.

Meaning: flower, queen. Means: Queen.

1. n., Anus, buttocks (less polite than lemu). Examples: ʻŌkole maluna, Hawaiian translation of English toast “bottoms up” [this expression is condemned by older Hawaiians as vulgar and indecent because of the sacredness of the human body in, old belief].