Rill vs. Rille

Rillnoun

A very small brook; a streamlet.

Rillnoun

(planetology) rille.

Rillverb

To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.

Rillnoun

A very small brook; a streamlet.

Rillnoun

See Rille.

Rillverb

To run a small stream.

Rillnoun

a small stream

Rillnoun

a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)

Rill

In hillslope geomorphology, a rill is a shallow channel (no more than a few tens of centimetres deep) cut into soil by the erosive action of flowing water. Similar but smaller incised channels are known as microrills; larger incised channels are known as gullies.

Rillenoun

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

Rillenoun

One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

Rille

Rille (German for 'groove') is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the surface of the Moon that resemble channels. The Latin term is rima, plural rimae.