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rivulet

noun
/ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/UK/ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/US

Etymology

From Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo (“trickle, little stream”), diminutive of rivo (“stream, brook, creek”), ultimately from Latin rīvulus, diminutive of rīvus. By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -ule + -et.

  1. derived from rīvulus
  2. derived from rivoletto

Definitions

  1. A small stream

    A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.

    • A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
    • Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind—
    • The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

  2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

The neighborhood

Derived

Blomer's rivulet

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rivulet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rivulet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at rivulet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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