"green wave" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: green waves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} green wave (plural green waves)
  1. A purposefully designed timing of a series of traffic lights to produce a green light for cars travelling at the correct speed as they arrive at the lights. Translations (way of timing traffic lights): grøn bølge [common-gender] (Danish), vihreä aalto (Finnish), grüne Welle [feminine] (German), zielona fala [feminine] (Polish), zeleni val [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), onda verde [feminine] (Spanish), grön våg [common-gender] (Swedish)

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