5. (Physical Geography) (intr) (of seas or lakes) to rise in waves 6. (intr) to well up or overflow 7. (Music, other) (tr) to make (a musical phrase) increase gradually in volume and then diminish n 8. (Physical Geography) a. the undulating movement of the surface of the ope...
However, large, slow sea level rises and falls occur as the very flat waves arrive. Refraction and reflection Rather like light and sound waves, water waves can be subject to refraction. The most obvious example is when, on the beach, we see waves approaching the beach nearly parallel to...