Definition of Ripplet

1. n. A small ripple.

Definition of Ripplet

1. Noun. A small ripple. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ripplet

1. a small ripple [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ripplet

rippier
rippiers
ripping
ripping bar
ripping chisel
rippingly
ripple
ripple effect
ripple mark
ripple voltage
rippled
rippler
ripplers
ripples
ripplet (current term)
ripplets
ripplier
rippliest
rippling
ripplingly
ripplings
ripplon
ripplons
ripply
ripps
riprap
riprapped
riprapping
ripraps

Literary usage of Ripplet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... wave (contextual), wavelet, dimple, ruffle, curl, crinkle, lipper (cant); spec, ring, ripplet, ripple. 2. See WAVE. ripple, vi 1. play (contextual), ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"... and the ripplet which they had caused fades gradually from appearance, while the great current of human life moves majestically onward. ..."

3. The History of the State of Maine: From Its First Discovery, A.D. 1602, to by William Durkee Williamson (1832)
"It begins in the SE corner of Turner at the Crooked ripplet in the Androscoggin, and extends down the middle of the river, to the Great Falls. Rev. ..."

4. A Text-book of Physics by Alexander Wilmer Duff, Exum Percival Lewis, Charles Elwood Marshall, Albert Pruden Carman, Robert Kenning McClung (1916)
"References FLEMING,S Waves and ripplet in Water, Air, and Ether is an excellent popular description of all kinds of waves. ..."

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