ripple

About 1.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.

   I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples spread.

2. noun One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.

   The ebbing tide had left ripples in the sand.

3. noun A sound similar to that of undulating water.
4. noun A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.

   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.

5. noun A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
6. noun A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
7. verb To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
8. verb To propagate like a moving wave.

Similar words

wavelet undulate guggle bubble burble ruffle gurgle riffle babble cockle

Often followed by

of effect in marks on and effects voltage through

Word family

rippled rippler ripplers ripples rippling ripply