Those ripples are called gravitational waves, or sometimes gravity waves.
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In the United States, the news that Kai Sotto, the 65th-ranked player in the high school class of 2020, would be joining the NBA’s G League caused barely a ripple.
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To look past the line-item spending and into the core concern — the economic price tag thrust onto society and its ripple effects.
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If vCA1 cells are the tiny ripples after throwing a rock into water, then the additional wave circuit around them are the rippling waves.
Towards ‘Eternal Sunshine’? New Links Found Between Memory and Emotion|Shelly Fan|July 28, 2020|Singularity Hub
Add gravitons into the mix, however, and you add a new motion on top of the usual ripples in space-time.
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And sending Cary to prison has a ripple effect for all of these characters.
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Playing in her yard one day, she saw “a ripple, a disturbance of the air … My first thought is that I have seen the devil.”
Hilary Mantel Visits the Twilight Zone|Jennie Yabroff|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The heat creates mirages with waves that ripple through the air.
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There was a ripple of assent in the crowd as the word spread.
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His work, attitude, and innovations continue to ripple through the industry.
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But it suddenly hushed when I heard a ripple of laughter among the hollyhocks before the door of a happy country home.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales|Robert L. Taylor
There was nothing to point to the place where Stéphane had fallen, not an eddy, not a ripple.
The Secret of Sarek|Maurice Leblanc
Popular books on Indian ornithology resemble one another in that a ripple of humour runs through each.
Jungle Folk|Douglas Dewar
A ripple of merry laughter followed this unexpected turn of events.
Petticoat Rule|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Then a ripple of flame ran along her sides, and she displayed her true colours by opening fire on the flagship.
The Harwich Naval Forces|E. F. Knight
British Dictionary definitions for ripple (1 of 2)
ripple1
/ (ˈrɪpəl) /
noun
a slight wave or undulation on the surface of water
a small wave or undulation in fabric, hair, etc
a sound reminiscent of water flowing quietly in ripplesa ripple of laughter
electronicsan oscillation of small amplitude superimposed on a steady value
US and Canadian another word for riffle (def. 4)
another word for ripple mark
verb
(intr)to form ripples or flow with a rippling or undulating motion
(tr)to stir up (water) so as to form ripples
(tr)to make ripple marks
(intr)(of sounds) to rise and fall gentlyher laughter rippled through the air