mottle

View more Health videos

Features that form the chromospheric network on the Sun, visible in H-alpha and calcium K-line spectrograms.

They cover the whole Sun, quiet and active regions alike. Coarse mottles are bright, up to 20,000 km across, and often elongated; they merge to form plages. Fine mottles are narrow (700 km wide and up to 7,000 km long), dark or bright, and are probably spicules seen against the disk. Fine mottles form clusters with their bases rooted in the coarse mottles. All coincide with regions of strong magnetic field on the photosphere.

1. Splotchy pattern that can be printed on paper, usually in a single color of ink, for an aesthetic effect. It can be created manually by applying ink to paper with a sponge.

2. Splotchy pattern on a printed image caused by some error in the printing process.

verb

To mark with many small spots: bespeckle, besprinkle, dapple, dot, fleck, freckle, pepper, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple. See marks.

1. The pattern or arrangement of spots and cloudings forming a mottled surface, esp. in marble, or in wood veneer as a result of unusual variation in fiber growth or fiber arrangement. Also see fiddleback, quilted figure, blister figure. 2. See mottling.

---

For a list of words related to mottling, see:

• Signs and Symptoms - mottling: blotches, streaks, or spots on skin

---

See words rhyming with "mottle."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Mottle.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - gøre broget/spraglet
n. - brogethed, spraglethed

Nederlands (Dutch)
vlek, vlekkenpatroon, vlekken

Français (French)
v. tr. - marbrer, tacher
n. - tache, marbrure

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sprenkelung, Fleck
v. - sprenkeln

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κηλίδα, πιτσιλιά, στίγμα
v. - διαστίζω

Italiano (Italian)
chiazza, chiazzare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mancha colorida (f)
v. - mosquear

Русский (Russian)
крапинка, пятнистая окраска, испещрять

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - manchar, jaspear, abigarrar
n. - mancha, pinta, veta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fläck, spräcklighet
v. - fläckig, marmorerad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使成杂色, 使有斑点, 杂色, 斑点

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使成雜色, 使有斑點
n. - 雜色, 斑點

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 얼룩을 붙이다
n. - 얼룩

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 斑, 斑点, ぶち, まだら
v. - 斑点を付ける, まだらにする

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ترقيطه, تقليمه (فعل) يرقط, يقلم, يلون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮גיוון בכתמים, נימר‬
n. - ‮מערך לא מסודר של כתמי/טלאי צבע, כתם/טלאי צבע‬

If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here.