ripple
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Definitions ofripple
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
Example: "I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread."
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
Example: "I enjoy fudge ripple ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the ripple part and eat only that."
- A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- To propagate like a moving wave.
- To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- To shape into a series of ripples.
- To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
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