English-Spanish translations for shock wave

• onda de choque
  La destitución de la Comisión Santer en 1999 recorrió el sistema como una onda de choque. A shock wave went through the system when the Santer Commission was removed in 1999.
  Señor Presidente, hoy el conflicto de Oriente Medio expande la onda de choque en todos los países mediterráneos. Mr President, the conflict in the Middle East is today sending shock waves through all the countries of the Mediterranean.

Definition of shock wave

• 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

Related words

• shock
• shocking
• aftershock
• electroshock
• shockingly
• shocks
• shocked
• shocker
• shockproof
• foreshock