# Wave (disambiguation)

A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space.
Wave or waves may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional characters

* Wave (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Universe
* Wave the Swallow, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
* Wave, a character in Agame ga Kill!

### Literature and writing

* Wave (magazine), an English-language, monthly magazine in Nepal
* Wave (Deraniyagala book), a 2013 memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala
* Wave Books, an American publisher

### Music

* Wave music, an electronic bass music genre

#### People

* Rod Wave, American singer and rapper

#### Bands

* Wave (band), a Canadian pop band
* Waves (band), a New Zealand folk rock band
* Wavves, an American rock band

#### Albums

* Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim album), 1967
* Wave (Patti Smith Group album), 1979
* Wave (T-Square album), 1989
* Wave (Murray Head album), 1992
* Wave (CNBLUE album), 2014
* Wave (Patrick Watson album), 2019
* Wave (Ive EP), 2023
* Wave (WEi EP), 2024

#### Songs

* "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim song), 1967
* "Wave" (Asake and Central Cee song), 2024
* "Wave" (Beck song), 2014
* "Wave" (Meghan Trainor song), 2019
* "Wave", a 2018 song by Justin Timberlake from Man of the Woods
* "Wave", a song by Ateez from the album Treasure EP.3: One to All

### Radio and television stations

* DWAV, an FM radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines formerly known as Wave 89.1 (2001–2024)
* WAVE (TV), an American television station
* WAVE Radio, a radio station in Belize City
* CHKX-FM, Canadian radio station known as Wave 947
* Wave, a pair of television idents for BBC Two; see BBC Two '1991–2001' idents

## Businesses and organizations

* Wave (financial services and software), a Canadian company
* Wave Broadband, an American service provider
* WAVE Trust, Worldwide Alternatives to Violence, a charity
* WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, a former branch of the U.S. Navy
* Waves Audio, an Israeli company
* Women Against Violence Europe

## Politics

* Landslide victory, in electoral politics
** Wave elections in the United States
* Conservative wave, a political phenomenon in the mid-2010s to early 2020s in Latin America

## Sport

* Milwaukee Wave, an American soccer team
* Pepperdine Waves, the athletic program of Pepperdine University, U.S.
* Wilmington Waves, an American baseball team

## Technology

* WAV, Waveform Audio File Format, also known as WAVE
* Wave (smart speaker), by Naver Corporation and Line Corporation
* Apache Wave, formerly Google Wave, a software framework
* Wave, a 2014 iOS 8 hoax feature
* PV-Wave, a programming language
* WebAIM WAVE, an accessibility evaluation tool

## Vehicles

* Wave (brig), a sailing vessel wrecked in 1848
* Wave (HBC vessel), operated by the Hudson's Bay Company from 1840–1841; see Hudson's Bay Company vessels
* USS Wave, the name of several United States Navy ships
* Airwave Wave, an Austrian paraglider design
* Bajaj Wave, a motor scooter
* Honda Wave series, motorcycles
* Pontiac Wave, a car

## Other uses

* Wave (audience), or Mexican wave, when successive spectators raise their arms
* Wave (gesture), involving moving one's hand
* Wave (typeface)
* Waves (hairstyle), a hairstyle for curly hair