Definition of "wavemaker" [wavemaker]

• An oscillating device that creates reproducible waves in a liquid (noun)

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• "GRIFFIN: Our top story, the 9/11 commission report a hot seller at bookstores, and now a wavemaker in Washington."
• "Otherwise, we would appoint a party man, we would give a comrade responsibility and convert his task into a grinder of men, into a wavemaker, into a wrench, although he solves any problem."
• "Yet another hypothesis comes from Costas Synolakis, director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who thinks that the shaking land may have caused water to vibrate, "like a plunging wavemaker"."