shock wave

See also: shockwave

English

Alternative forms

• shockwave

Noun

shock wave (plural shock waves)

1. (physics) A powerful compression wave produced by the movement of a body through a fluid or gas at a velocity greater than the local speed of sound.
2. (figuratively) Any violent disturbance.
   • 2019 July 11, John Thornhill, “Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

   • 2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     To lose against Liverpool is a painful business at any time but to be on the receiving end of what was a record defeat in this fixture will send shock waves through Old Trafford.

Translations

A powerful compression wave

• Afrikaans: skokgolf
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: موجة صادمة
• Armenian: հարվածային ալիք (hy) (harvacayin alikʻ)
• Azerbaijani: zərbə dalğası
• Basque: talka-uhin
• Belarusian: ударная хваля f (udarnaja xvalja)
• Bengali: ঘাত তরঙ্গ (ghat toroṅgo)
• Bulgarian: ударна вълна f (udarna vǎlna)
• Catalan: ona de xoc f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 衝擊波／冲击波 (cung¹ gik¹ bo¹)

  Mandarin: 激波 (zh) (jībō) (mainland China), 震波 (zh) (zhènbō) (Taiwan), 衝擊波／冲击波 (zh) (chōngjībō)

• Czech: rázová vlna f
• Danish: chokbølge c
• Dutch: schokgolf (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝokondo
• Estonian: lööklaine (et)
• Finnish: iskuaalto
• French: onde de choc (fr) f
• Galician: onda de choque f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Stoßwelle (de) f, Schockwelle (de) f
• Hebrew: גל הלם
• Hungarian: lökéshullám (hu)
• Indonesian: gelombang kejut
• Irish: tonn turrainge
• Italian: onda d'urto f
• Japanese: 衝撃波 (ja) (しょうげきは, shōgekiha)
• Kazakh: соққы толқыны (soqqy tolqyny)
• Korean: 충격파(衝擊波) (chunggyeokpa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: smūginė banga f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjokkbølge m or f

  Nynorsk: sjokkbølgje f, sjokkbylgje f

• Persian: موج ضربه‌ای
• Polish: fala uderzeniowa
• Portuguese: onda de choque f
• Romanian: undă de șoc (ro) f
• Russian: уда́рная волна́ (ru) f (udárnaja volná)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: onda de choque f
• Swedish: chockvåg (sv), chockfront
• Thai: คลื่นกระแทก
• Turkish: şok dalgası
• Ukrainian: ударна хвиля f (udarna xvylja)
• Uzbek: zarba toʻlqini
• Vietnamese: sóng xung kích (vi) (㳥衝擊)

Any violent disturbance

See also

• shock front