Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A speck or small spot, as a natural dot of color on skin, plumage, or foliage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little speck or spot; a speckled marking; the state of being speckled: as, yellow with patches of speckle.
- noun Color; hence, kind; sort.
- To mark with specks or spots; fleck; speck; spot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
- transitive verb To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
spot orspeck on theskin ,plumage orfoliage . - noun physics The
random distribution oflight when it isscattered by arough surface. - verb To mark with speckles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb mark with small spots
- verb produce a mottled effect
- noun a small contrasting part of something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Thanks Laurie - it is a shame, whoever invents a way to keep the speckle will be my hero for life!
Weekend Herb Blogging #111 Haalo 2007
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The ocean shore teemed with fish, crustaceans, and sea mammals, but one particular fish, called a speckle fish, was everyone's favorite.
Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005
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SPR microscopy instruments driven by coherent illumination can suffer from dramatically reduced image quality due to interference effects, the so-called speckle artifact.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rahber Thariani et al. 2010
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IC can form lacunas with diameters of up to several micrometers containing nuclear bodies such as speckle, Cajal and PML bodies
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jiang Zhu et al. 2010
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Even the teleporter has been upgraded -- say goodbye to the "speckle" and hello to the "swirl."
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Even the teleporter has been upgraded -- say goodbye to the "speckle" and hello to the "swirl."
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If a laser is projected onto such a surface the unique reflection can be captured as a unique "speckle" pattern by a digital camera and used as an identity.
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The book is full of scientific observations of creatures such as the sea speckle, the red poison needle, the oleander, the bluebottle or coral.
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Trees are snapped and the foundations of homes speckle the landscape.
Indonesian Volcano Victims Turn to Tourism to Rebuild Their Lives 2011
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Trees are snapped and the foundations of homes speckle the landscape.
Indonesian Volcano Victims Turn to Tourism to Rebuild Their Lives 2011
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