Usually means: Small waves on water surface.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripple: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ripple: Merriam-Webster
  3. ripple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ripple, ripple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ripple: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ripple: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ripple, ripple: Wordnik
  8. ripple: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ripple, ripple: Wiktionary
  10. ripple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ripple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ripple: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ripple: Dictionary.com
  14. ripple (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ripple: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ripple (band), Ripple (charitable organisation), Ripple (company), Ripple (disambiguation), Ripple (electrical), Ripple (filters), Ripple (payment protocol), Ripple (song), Ripple (wine), Ripple, The Ripple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ripple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ripple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ripple: Rhymezone
  20. ripple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ripple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ripple: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ripple: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. ripple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ripple: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ripple: Financial dictionary
  2. Ripple: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ripple (physics), ripple: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ripple: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIPPLE: Acronym Finder
  2. ripple: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ripple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Ripple: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Ripple: Pen Glossary
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See rippled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
noun:  A sound similar to that of undulating water.
noun:  A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
noun:  (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
verb:  (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
verb:  (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
verb:  (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
verb:  (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
verb:  (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
noun:  (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
verb:  To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
noun:  A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3450).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8737).
noun:  A surname.

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