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A small wave on the surface of a liquid
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rippling
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple , riffle , wavelet ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A motion or sound that ripples. vb. (present participle of ripple lang= en)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ripple \Rip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rippled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rippling .] [Cf. Rimple , Rumple .] To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rippling refers to a group of meta-level heuristics , developed primarily in the Mathematical Reasoning Group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh , and most commonly used to guide inductive proofs in automated theorem proving systems ...
Usage examples of rippling.
Now, as he stood before her, naked torso gleaming in the candlelight, muscles rippling, eyes afire with their ebony fury, she was bleakly sorry.
Now, with the swift coming of the jungle dawn, the plain had been transformed into a rippling sea of emerald, of malachite, alexandrite, and amazon-stone green, richly flecked with topaz and amethyst.
But if the algid psynergy rippling over his skin was to be trusted, this was not a place of old voors.
Lady, but the rippling tentacles of a great ammonite filled her mind instead.
Eyes asquint against the rush of wind and her upper lip lifted, a hand held near her ear to keep her rippling silk head scarf from flying away.
She did her best to quell the anxiety rippling through her as she took her seat beside Bitsy, but it was hard.
Rafael shrugged his shoulders, barely rippling the gray-black material of his cotte, and put his parchments behind the bookcase beside him.
The winter wheat was already turned a fawnish silver by the glaring sun, miles upon miles of it rippling and bending in the wind, broken only by stands of thin, spindling, blue-leafed trees and dusty clumps of tired grey bushes.
The wind tugged at his hair, teased the caricature of John Steinbeck gracing his loose T-shirt into rippling over his broad chest.
Six months later, Zanka left him anyway for an extremely well built Liten with rippling muscles and an air of calm self-confidence.
Entirely aside from his thoughts of self-preservation, Lok was exhilarated by the scene: the sleek tan body rippling with taut muscles, the wide grassy theater of action, and the excited yaps of an approaching troupe of dead eaters gathering at a distance to dispose of the loser.
His mojo, Winward noted, was almost calm by comparison, although it seemed to be rippling its feathers rather frequently.
They wore only the little mutsha loincloths, and hung their heads shyly as Louise greeted them in fluent rippling Sindebele.
The spikes spread, as though they were tendrils sprung from some deadly vines beneath the surface of the wall, and raced out over the ground before the walls as well, rippling into place like blades of grass growing all in an instant, their gleaming tips pointing out at the oncoming horde.
The black-hole piercer, Burst, was standing there, and all his muscles were rippling madly.