Thesaurus results for WAVELET

wavelet

noun

Definition of wavelet

as in riffle

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Recent Examples of wavelet Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore. — Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025 Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025 For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data. — William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025 And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021. — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024 Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023 Now a little rill of wavelets across the surface of the flood was the only thing that marked the river’s usual borders. — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wavelet

Noun

The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.

— Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Tanks and soldiers with riffles have lined the streets of the Paraguayan capital all week.

— Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

Definition of riffle

Noun

In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.

— Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.

— Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019

Definition of comber

Noun

The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880 billion worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Changes in that benchmark rate ripple through other short-term borrowing costs across the economy, influencing everything from bank funding costs to credit card rates.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026