different between wavelike vs undulation

English

wave +? -like

wavelike (comparative more wavelike, superlative most wavelike)

(physics) Having some properties or characteristics of a wave; used especially of physical particles.

undulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Medieval Latin undul?ti?; compare French ondulation.

undulation (countable and uncountable, plural undulations)

An instance or act of undulating.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 77):
  But the next undulation would raise us, showing the island ablaze in the sunlight, an emerald of dazzling beauty resting lightly on the bosom of the sea.
A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
(music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
(medicine, dated) A feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart.
(medicine, dated) The distinctive motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening.

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