afterwave

== English == === Etymology === From after- +‎ wave. === Noun === afterwave (plural afterwaves) A wave (in literal and figurative senses) that follows something. 1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,[1] From the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion: