wavelet

Examples

• All

• Sabine was lying with arms spread, one leg bent at an odd angle, on the mosaic of wavelets and foam.

  Fiction book (1994)

• First, they washed against the banks of the causeway, and then in several places, wavelets crossed the road itself.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Neptune's Daughter sat with her back to the cave wall, and Maggie with her back to the small wavelets that broke upon the beach.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Little wavelets slapped the sides of the sleek, white sloop, one of the finest on the coast.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Directly ahead of him, as far as he could see, was a vast expanse of water, tiny wavelets flashing golden orange and red reflections of the sun into his eyes.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The cameraman glanced at the sea below to get his bearings and saw wavelets outlining a large, shiny, grayish object mounding at the surface.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The gentle wavelets danced across the surface of the pond as the breeze blew over it.

• As the children played by the shore, they watched the tiny wavelets lapping at their feet.

Synonyms

W

wave

vswavelet

759 1.0

A moving ridge of water or a traveling motion such as sound and light

is smaller and limited to tiny surface movements on liquids

R

ripple

vswavelet

45 2.6

A small wave on water made by a light touch or breeze

is usually one small rise rather than a repeated series

R

rippling

vswavelet

1 2.3

Small waves that move on the surface of water

is a discrete single rise rather than a continuous moving pattern

R

riffle

vswavelet

1 6.8

A small ripple on water caused by a light wind or current

describes the small surface rise itself rather than its cause

How Big

tsunami

87 4.9

swell

• Literature

46 5.7

wave

759 1.0

wavelet

1 8.1

ripple

45 2.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology