undulation

Other forms of undulation

plural

undulations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about undulation

What does undulation mean?

undulation means "an undulating curve". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undulation?

undulation has 5 syllables: un-du-la-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for undulation?

Close synonyms include wave, wave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is undulation a common word?

undulation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.