Usually means: Electrical activity within the brain.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. brain wave: Merriam-Webster
  2. brain wave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. brain wave: Collins English Dictionary
  4. brain wave: Vocabulary.com
  5. brain-wave: Wordnik
  6. brain wave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. brain wave: Wiktionary
  8. brain wave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. brain wave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. brain wave: Dictionary.com
  11. Brain Wave, Brain wave (disambiguation), Brain wave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. brain wave: Rhymezone
  13. brain wave: FreeDictionary.org
  14. brain wave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. brain wave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brain wave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. brain wave: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. brain wave: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brain Wave: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Brain wave)

noun:  Alternative form of brainwave [Any of many rhythmic fluctuations of electric potential between parts of the brain, especially those seen on an electroencephalogram]

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