speckle
speckle Lexical Profile
speckle Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A small spot, fleck, or patch of color on a surface, especially one that is part of a natural pattern on skin, feathers, or eggshells.
"The robin's eggs were a pale blue covered with tiny brown speckles."
In optics and radar, a granular interference pattern produced when coherent light or radiation is scattered by a rough surface.
"Engineers applied a filtering algorithm to reduce laser speckle in the ultrasound image."
• verb
To mark or cover a surface with a large number of small spots, dots, or patches of color.
"The potter used a stiff brush to speckle the ceramic glaze with tiny drops of cobalt blue."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English spekkel, formed from speck ('small spot or mark', from Old English specca) with the diminutive suffix -le, influenced by Middle Dutch spickel.