verb
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To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
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To cause to resemble a wave
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To move in wavelike motions.
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To appear wavelike.
noun
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Undulation
adjective
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Moving up and down like waves; wavy.
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Forming a series of regular curves.
Examples of undulating in a Sentence
The surface of the department consists of undulating and well-wooded plains, intersected by numerous valleys, and diversified in the north-east by hilly ground which forms a part of the mountain system of the Ardennes.
The surface is a slightly undulating plain.
The river banks, however, are fringed with trees, and in the more undulating lands the timber belts vary from a few hundreds of yards to 5 or 10 m.
Although in many districts there are low ranges of hills, the surface is more often a desolate and monotonous plain, flat or slightly undulating.
The Park consists of about 265 acres of undulating land with natural woods and rocks, traversed by a gorge cut by Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac. The river and gorge extend into the country far beyond the Park, and in addition to the animals that have been introduced, there are many wild creatures living in their native freedom, such as musk rats in the creek, grey squirrels, crested cardinals and turkey buzzards.
It lies on the small river Colne in a pleasant undulating and well wooded district.
When the industry was first established, the land which was supposed to be best for the plant was hill or undulating ground; but now it has been found in the Surma valley that with good drainage the heaviest crops of tea can be raised from low-lying land, even such as formerly supported rice cultivation.
It is situated in the midst of picturesque and undulating country, consisting of wide sandy heaths and woods, and dotted with many fine country houses.
Towards the west, along the Upper Richmond and Kingston roads, there is considerable open country, undulating and well wooded.
An undulating plateau stretches through the middle, watered by the Ishim and its tributary the Nura.
The numerous mining villages, the great number of cultivated areas and the easy passes, traversed by good roads, give those mountains in many places the aspect of a hilly undulating plain.
The interior of Bohemia has sometimes been compared to a deep basin; but for the most part it is an undulating plateau, over r000 ft.
For the most part the surface of the state is gently undulating and at a slight elevation above the lakes, but low marsh lands are common to many sections; the north part of the lower peninsula is occupied by a plateau of considerable dimensions, and the north-west part of the upper peninsula is rugged with hills and mountains.
The floor of the valley is very undulating, and contains numerous small streams, whose divides are from 700 to 900 ft.
It is an undulating country, for the most part well drained, but swampy in its lowest portions.
The property is south facing and has a tranquil view across undulating farmland.
The course although based at 800 foot above sea level is of a slightly undulating nature with no tiring inclines.
A scalloped design is a series of curves or ridges that combine to make a ruffled, undulating pattern.
A portion extending through the middle from east to west and south, from west of the centre to Green Bay, is either flat and even swampy or only gently undulating.
It lies in a pleasant undulating country on the small river Swift, an affluent of the Avon.
In this case the wing, in virtue of its being carried forward by the body in motion, describes an undulating or spiral course, as shown in fig.
The land, generally undulating, is further diversified with hills arranged in groups or ranges, a common characteristic of which is a bold face on the one hand and a long gentle slope, with narrow valleys deeply penetrating, on the other.
Throughout Hereford, and in part of Monmouthshire, the Old Red Sandstone sinks to a great undulating plain, traversed by the exquisite windings of the Wye, and forming some of the richest pasture and fruit lands of England.
The surface is generally low and undulating, and the coast-lands flat and marshy.
The undulating tableland has an average height of 300 ft.
North of it the land is undulating, but low; to the south, a well-wooded spur of the Chiltern Hills separates the Vale of Bedford from the flat open tributary valley of the Ivel.
Except in the river valleys it is a poor territory, rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Turkman desert, and the Oxus riverain which is highly cultivated.
In the case of flat land, where a fall is obtained chiefly by increasing the depth of the drains at their lower ends, these lines may be disposed in any direction that is found convenient; but in undulating ground a single field may require several distinct sets of drains lying at different angles, so as to suit its several slopes.
Although essentially mountain animals, sheep generally frequent open, undulating districts, rather than the precipitous heights to which goats are partial.
The district may be said to consist of low plain-land towards the Irrawaddy, and of undulating country inland rising higher and higher westwards towards the Arakan hills.
In places there are terraced uplands, and in others the undulating plain is cut by erosion into low escarpments.
The surface is generally rolling and undulating, comprising, with the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a swelling elevation of land between the three depressions represented by Lakes Michigan and Superior and the Mississippi and the St Croix rivers.
In fact the undulating fertile terraces of Upper and Lower Swabia may be taken as the characteristic parts of this agricultural country.
The country is low and gently undulating, broken by detached hills and ridges not exceeding in elevation 2 Soo ft.
The fracture is perfectly conchoidal, so that blows with a hammer detach flakes which have convex, slightly undulating surfaces.
The large islands have a considerable extent of undulating country, dry and open on their lee sides.
The eastern district, traversed by the most westerly offshoots of the Erzgebirge and watered by the Pleisse and its tributaries, forms an undulating and fertile region, containing some of the richest agricultural soil in Germany.
Towards the eastern side of the district the country assumes more the character of undulating high lands, favoured with soil of a good quality.
The surface gradually sinks down by undulating terraces to the valleys of the Vistula and Dniester.
In other parts, as in the Basque country, in Galicia, in the Serrania de Cuenca (between the headwaters of the Tagus and those of the Jiicar), in the Sierra de Albarracin (between the headwaters of the Tagus and those of the Guadalaviar), there are extensive tracts of undulating forest-clad hill country, and almost contiguous to these there are apparently boundless plains, or tracts of level table-land, some almost uninhabitable, and some streaked with irrigation canals and richly cultivatedlike the Rcquena of Valencia.
In the east and middle portion it is composed of a countless number of irregularly-disposed undulating mountains all nearly equal in height.
The tissue is made up of large, unseptate, occasionally branching tubes, with an undulating vertical course, among which much smaller tubes are irregularly interwoven.
It has been found useful in some cases to examine microscopically the thin film of coal that often covers the pinnae of fossil fronds, in order to determine the form of the epidermal cells which may be preserved in the carbonized cuticle; rectilinear epidermal cell-walls are usually considered characteristic of Cycads, while cells with undulating walls are more likely to belong to Ferns.
Its surface is in general that of a gently undulating upland divided near the middle by the lowland of the Connecticut valley, the most striking physiographic feature of the state.
The western portion of the territory is undulating and in the extreme southwest, where it forms part of the Harz range, mountainous, the Ramberg peak attaining a height of 1900 ft.
It is pleasantly situated in an undulating wellwooded district, 7 m.
Many authors would liken the rolling sugar fields around Bridgetown to the undulating contours of Dorset or the Cotswolds.
Unfortunately the iron panning had an undulating surface and did not preserve any evidence for a timber corduroy.
The glazing in the undulating ribbon roof revealed London's billowing skyscape, a sight that somehow evoked the smell of the sea.
The 18-hole, 6442 yard, par 71 course uses the natural contours to create undulating fairways.