ripple
Other forms: ripples; rippled
A ripple is a small wave on the surface of something, such as a ripple that forms a ring around the spot where you threw a pebble into the pond.
Ripple can also be a verb. For example, you might see raindrops ripple on top of a puddle. Ripple was first used in the 1670s to describe something that causes a ruffled surface, sort of like how water seems to momentarily gain texture as it's stirred. Ripple later came to describe a very small wave, but you've probably heard of the "ripple effect" in which tiny waves spread, setting off more and more waves.
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a small wave on the surface of a liquidtype of:moving ridge, waveone of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
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stir up (water) so as to form ripples
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flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
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(electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value
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