speckle
IPA: spˈɛkʌɫ
noun
- A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
- (physics) The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
- (Scotland) Kind; sort.
- (cytology) A cluster of interchromatin granules in a nucleus.
verb
- To mark with speckles.
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Examples of "speckle" in Sentences
- The toes have brown speckles.
- Do you know what this speckle is
- He found a tiny speckle on his note.
- The speckle pattern is not matched with the image.
- Information present in the dynamic speckle pattern.
- Information is presented in the dynamic speckle pattern.
- There's no other way that little speckle would be removed.
- They dilute the important ones and make the page speckled blue.
- Often the lifeboat is shown as a speckle in the surrounding water.
- Originally from the Sanksrit chitra, means variegated or speckled.
- Trees are snapped and the foundations of homes speckle the landscape.
- Even the teleporter has been upgraded -- say goodbye to the "speckle" and hello to the "swirl."
- Thanks Laurie - it is a shame, whoever invents a way to keep the speckle will be my hero for life!
- IC can form lacunas with diameters of up to several micrometers containing nuclear bodies such as speckle, Cajal and PML bodies
- The ocean shore teemed with fish, crustaceans, and sea mammals, but one particular fish, called a speckle fish, was everyone's favorite.
- The book is full of scientific observations of creatures such as the sea speckle, the red poison needle, the oleander, the bluebottle or coral.
- 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.
- SPR microscopy instruments driven by coherent illumination can suffer from dramatically reduced image quality due to interference effects, the so-called speckle artifact.