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Rille vs Rillet - What's the difference?

rille | rillet |

As nouns the difference between rille and rillet

is that rille is (planetology) a long, narrow depression in that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies while rillet is a little rill.

rille

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (planetology) A long, narrow depression in that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies.

    • Synonyms

    * rima

    See also

    * mare * graben

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rillet

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A little rill.
  • * 1953 , publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
    • First, a pearly white, unrelieved, then a trace of faint darkness here and there, and finally, the fine neatly printed equations in black, with an occasional red hairline that wavered through the darker forest like a staggering rillet .
    From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical. — Tennyson.
    English words suffixed with -et English words suffixed with -let