Synonyms of the word wavelet


WAVELETRIFFLE - RIPPLE - RIPPLING - WAVE

wavelet

  • n. A small wave; a ripple.
  • n. (mathematics) A fast-decaying oscillation.

riffle

  • n. A fast-flowing, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
  • n. A succession of small waves.
  • n. A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching…
  • n. A quick skim through the pages of a book.
  • n. The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.
  • v. (intransitive) To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream.
  • v. (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
  • v. (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
  • v. (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
  • v. (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges…
  • v. (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.

ripple

  • n. A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
  • n. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
  • n. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
  • n. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
  • v. To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
  • v. To propagate like a moving wave.
  • v. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
  • v. (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze.
  • n. An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom…
  • v. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

rippling

  • v. present participle of ripple.
  • adj. Moving in a chaotic, undulating fashion, as in a flow of water or a flag blowing in the wind.
  • n. A motion or sound that ripples.

wave

  • v. (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (intransitive) To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the head) in greeting or departure.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion,…
  • v. (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
  • v. (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
  • v. (transitive) To produce waves to the hair.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
  • v. (transitive, metonymically) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state.
  • v. (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • n. A moving disturbance in the level of a body of water; an undulation.
  • n. (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
  • n. A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden unusually large amount of something that is temporarily experienced.
  • n. A sideway movement of the hand(s).
  • n. A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of…
  • v. Obsolete spelling of waive.

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