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Wavelet

noun
1.
A small wave on the surface of a liquid.  Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling.






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"Wavelet" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the physical benefits of laughing. There is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsion occasioned by good hearty laughter. The life principle, or the central man, is shaken to the innermost depths, sending new tided of life and strength to the surface, thus materially tending to insure good health to persons who indulge therein. The blood moves more ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole

... of their gratitude, she thought. It looked as if Sheldon had been right after all. Aroa waited stolidly. A leaping fish splashed far out on the water. A tiny wavelet murmured sleepily on the beach. The shadow of a flying-fox drifted by in velvet silence overhead. A light air fanned coolly on her cheek; it was the land-breeze ...
— Adventure • Jack London

... last, he knew beyond cavil that, for all his mind—or was it his conscience?—might haver and split straws, he had been drawn to Rajputana, as irresistibly as if that vast desert region were the moon and he a wavelet on the ...
— Far to Seek - A Romance of England and India • Maud Diver

... wavelet stole far into the beach, as if to caress him, but pined away ere it could reach its goal. It was as if the enamoured sea was stretching out its arms to him. Who knows, perhaps through the clear water some green-eyed nymph, or a young ...
— The House of the Vampire • George Sylvester Viereck

... bosom of the ocean, Dance the wavelet's glittering band; With a slow and fairy motion Moving onward towards the land; But that reached, they burst and sever, Bound no more by beauty's spell, Thus, we who have toiled together, The ...
— Silver Links • Various



Words linked to "Wavelet" :   wave, moving ridge



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