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Schwall ([ʃval] from Schwellen; Middle High German swal) denotes:
- (standing) high resilience at high flow speeds, see flows in open channels
- rapid increase in flow in an open channel in the form of a single, progressing wave front, see currents in open channels
- Multiple broken surf waves , the water of which runs onto a gently sloping beach.
- generally the sudden increased occurrence of a certain thing (torrent of words, torrent of speech, torrent of water)
- Schwall (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis) , municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Schwall (municipality of Friesach) , locality of the municipality of Friesach , district of Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia
- (2119) Torrent , asteroid of the main belt
- Schwall Peak , mountain in Victoria Land, Antarctica
Schwall is the family name of the following people:
- Angelica Schwall-Düren (* 1948), German politician (SPD)
- Anik Schwall (* 1992), Luxembourg cellist
- Donald Bernard Schwall (born 1936), American baseball player
- Jim Schwall (born 1942), American musician, singer, songwriter and photographer
- Max Schwall (pastor) (1894–1958), German pastor and educator
- Max Schwall (soccer player) (* 1932), German soccer player
- Oliver Schwall (* 1967), German regatta sailor
- René Schwall (* 1971), German regatta sailor
- Thomas Schwall (* 1983), American ski jumper
- Victor Henry Schwall (1925-2000), American football player
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Wiktionary: Schwall - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
