Usually means: Small, scattered spots or marks.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word speckle:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. speckle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. speckle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. speckle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. speckle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. speckle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Speckle, speckle: Wordnik
  7. speckle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. speckle: Wiktionary
  9. speckle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. speckle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. speckle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. speckle: Dictionary.com
  13. speckle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Speckle (interference), Speckle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Speckle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. speckle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. speckle: Rhymezone
  18. Speckle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. speckle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. speckle: Free Dictionary
  21. speckle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. speckle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speckle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. speckle: Medical dictionary

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
noun:  (physics) The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
noun:  (Scotland) Kind; sort.
noun:  (cytology) A cluster of interchromatin granules in a nucleus.
verb:  To mark with speckles.

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