(v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
(v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
(v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear.
(v. i.) 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 of grain.
(v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
(v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
(n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
(n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
(n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
(n.) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
Example Sentences:
(1) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
(2) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(3) Shares in energy companies lost ground as the impact of the drop in oil prices rippled through European stock markets.
(4) The market is lightly regulated and any problems could ripple out into a wider credit crunch.
(5) But the move to inflate the price of Daraprim, which is the brand name for the generic drug pyrimethamine and was originally developed in the 1940s by corporate elements of the pharmaceutical giant now known as GlaxoSmithKline, has set off ripples of concern across the medical community.
(6) At least that seemed to be the lesson last week when the autumn statement confirmed a further £600m raid on the troubled universal credit – a move that didn't cause a ripple.
(7) Although only relatively few of the mildly impaired elderly in the nursing home volunteered for the joint activity, the ripple effect of the project extended beyond the direct participants.
(8) Panic rippled through the crowd as riot police advanced repeatedly with batons drawn before being later backed up by dozens of mounted police.
(9) He has described himself as "semi-retired" and, as unrest rippled through Tibetan areas in 2008, threatened to resign as leader of the administration-in-exile if violence continued.
(10) There is a ripple of applause and the odd cheer each time.
(11) The result suggests that the rearrangement of the ripple structure takes place during temperature change successively.
(12) The time has come to relegate psychoanalysis to its proper place as a moment in the historical development of psychiatry and a ripple in 20th century western culture.
(13) However, while the return of rising property prices which started in London has been rippling out to the regions, Zoopla claimed that in some parts of the country homes are worth less than at the turn of the year.
(14) (The day before, they filmed a car chase down the main street and the excitement still ripples through the glutinous air.)
(15) Random grenade blasts and gunfire sent ripples of tension through the crowds, tearful women ducking as explosions rocked the courtyard.
(16) The a parameter (proportional to the lamellar repeat distance) increases with increasing water content, while the b parameter (a measure of the ripple periodicity) decreases with increasing water content.
(17) Secondary rippled structures are observed in the low temperature L beta'-phase for cholesterol content below approx.
(18) They were formed by parallel filaments of 6-10 nm beaded periodically by electron-dense particles of 10-18 nm in a lattice, hexagonal or parallel-ripple pattern.
(19) Meanwhile, barely a ripple was caused by the seeming incongruity of insisting on those on higher incomes to shoulder more of the burden, while failing to repeat the pledge from last year’s Westminster manifesto to introduce a 50p top rate of tax.
(20) In contrast, application of 4-AP to nerves injured by the placement of loose ligatures results in the appearance of late rippled components in the compound action potential.
Wavelet
Definition:
(n.) A little wave; a ripple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Positive wavelets preceding the primary cortical response were also diminished by the occlusion, suggesting that ischemia affected the thalamocortical white matter.
(2) Most significantly, however, it can also track sporadic or nonstationary irregularities in the shape of an individual acoustic wavelet.
(3) Wavelets were introduced by Grossman and Morlet in 1984.
(4) Latency and amplitude for various wavelets were plotted against signal intensity.
(5) The number of circuits and wavelets increased in a dose-dependent fashion.
(6) These functional distinctions between the last and the earlier wavelets are consistent with their representing the activity of different retinal generators.
(7) As the electrode was advanced proximally, the wavelets disappeared as a function of retinal depth.
(8) Following far-field potential of P14 after median nerve stimulation, we identified several small wavelets, designated here as fast frequency potentials or FFP, over the ascending and descending phases of the major negative wave of 'N20.'
(9) The spin density can be reconstructed with an inverse wavelet transform.
(10) Each wavelet had an amplitude maximum at a certain stimulus intensity level.
(11) It was supposed that this was the site of re-entry for a cycling wavelet subsidiary to the main flutter wave.
(12) It is often preceded by a brief wavelet of depolarization ascribed to the so-called back-response.4.
(13) Oscillatory potentials resembling those seen in human VEPs are observed riding on N40; analysis of MUA in conjunction with sources and sinks coincident with these wavelets provides evidence that they derive from both thalamocortical and cortical activity.
(14) Wavelets are already used for speech recognition, geophysics investigations and fractal analysis.
(15) The OPs consisted of three to four wavelets with a mean peak interval of approximately 6.5 msec, consistent with that recorded with conventional full-field stimuli over the entire retina.
(16) Rods responded to red flicker with discrete wavelets up to 5 Hz.
(17) Regardless of the number of OP wavelets, the last OP wavelet increased in amplitude and decreased in implicit time to a greater extent than did the earlier wavelet(s).
(18) HNR, however, is usually inflated by cycle-to-cycle variations of fundamental frequency period because zero padding is used for time normalization of the wavelet.
(19) Other time-frequency representations, such as the Wigner distribution, short-time spectral estimators, and the wavelet transform, have also been investigated.
(20) The wavelet transform, which is the decomposition of a signal into a set of independent frequency channels, is shown to be a useful diagnostic tool in the analysis of heartbeat sounds.