speckle
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Reflected, back-scattered photons return from the target object carrying speckle noise, a random type of flaw that occurs in imagery.
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2024
But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe.
From Slate • Jul. 13, 2022
Hot spots continue to speckle the map of the country, many of them in line with low vaccination rates but others in areas where vaccinations are among the highest.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
It is restless and searching, continually morphing in shape, an abstract paintbrush swoosh one moment, a speckle of raindrops the next.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2020
The sky above them was stormy, and as they sailed closer, rain began to speckle the surface of the sea.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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