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Ripple may refer to:

Science and technology

• Capillary wave, commonly known as ripple, a wave traveling along the phase boundary of a fluid
  • Ripple, more generally a disturbance, for example of spacetime in gravitational waves
• Ripple (electrical), residual periodic variation in DC voltage during ac to dc conversion
  • Ripple current, pulsed current draw caused by some non-linear devices and circuits
  • Frequency-domain ripple
  • Ringing (signal), oscillation of a signal, particularly in the step response
• Polarization ripples, appearing after irradiation of a solid by energy flux (laser, ions, etc.)
• Ripple marks, as identified in sediments and sedimentary rocks
• Ripple (payment protocol), a real-time payment system by Ripple Labs
• Ripple control, a form of electrical load management
• Various brainwave patterns, including those which follow sharp waves in the hippocampus
• Ripple I and Ripple II, 1962 US nuclear bomb tests in Operation Dominic

Organizations

• Ripple (charitable organisation), a non-profit click-to-donate internet site and search engine
• Ripple Labs, the firm that created the Ripple payment protocol
• Ripple Foods, a brand of pea-protein dairy alternative products

Arts and entertainment

• Ripple (My Little Pony)
• "Ripple" (Naruto episode), an episode in an anime series
• Ripple, a phenomenon in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• The Ripple (newspaper), the student newspaper at the University of Leicester
• Ripples, a Japanese film directed by Naoko Ogigami
• Ripples (musical), a musical comedy theatrical production
• Ripples (TV series)

Music

• Ripple (band), an American soul/funk band
• "Ripples", a 2019 album by Ian Brown
• "Ripple" (song), a 1970 song by the Grateful Dead from their album American Beauty
• "Ripple", a song from the album Priest=Aura by The Church
• " Ripples...", a song from the album A Trick of the Tail by Genesis

Places

• Ripple, Kent, a village in England
• Ripple, Worcestershire, a village in England
• Ripples, New Brunswick, Canada
• Ripple River, US

Other uses

• Ripple effect, the socio-educational phenomenon
• USS Ripple, several US Navy ships
• Ripple, a former brand of flavored fortified wine

People with the surname

• Jimmy Ripple (1909–1959), baseball player
• Kenneth Francis Ripple (born 1943), Senior United States Circuit Judge
• Mark Ripple (born 1967), businessperson and author
• Richard E. Ripple (1931–2010), American educational psychologist
• Charlie Ripple (1920–1979), pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Ezra H. Ripple (1842–1909), Pennsylvania businessman, politician and soldier
• John Ripple (1897–1965), college football player
• William J. Ripple (born 1952), professor of ecology

Fictional character

• Wade Ripple, character from the 2023 Pixar animated film Elemental

See also

• Ripple tank, a glass tank of water demonstrating the basic properties of waves
• Raspberry Ripple, a flavour of ice-cream
• Ripple Island (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Ripple

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