Second wave or Wave 2 may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Hong Kong Second Wave
The Hong Kong New Wave is a film movement in Chinese-language Hong Kong cinema that emerged in the late 1970s and lasted into the early 2000s.
Origins of the movement
The Hong Kong New Wave started in 1979 with the release of numerous notable fil ...
, a group of Hong Kong film directors in late 1980s to 1990s
* Second Wave, a fictional terrorist group from the
second season of ''24''
Music
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Second wave ska, or 2 Tone, music genre created in England in the late 1970s
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''2nd Wave'' (album), a 1988 album by Surface
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''The Second Wave'' (Khoma album), a 2006 album by Khoma
* ''
The Second Wave: 25 Years of NWOBHM'', a 2003 album by British indie label Communiqué Records
Computing
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802.11ac Wave 2, 2nd generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi products
* Wave 2, an update for
Windows Live
Windows Live is a discontinued brand name for a set of web services and software products developed by Microsoft as part of its software-as-a-service platform. Chief components under the brand name included web services (all of which were expose ...
History
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Second-wave feminism
Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades. It took place throughout the Western world, and aimed to increase equality for women by building on previous feminist gains.
W ...
, a period of feminist history lasting approximately from the late 1960s through the 1980s
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Second European colonization wave, starting in the second half of the 19th century with the New Imperialism period
* The
deadly second wave of the Spanish flu
* The second wave of the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...
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