atrous
/ˈeɪtɹəs/
atrous adjective: jet-black in color.
Adjective (1)
atrous (comparative more atrous, superlative most atrous)
- Jet-black in color.
- Male atrous leadcolourd^([sic]) on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ;1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries- Volume 1
- Head atrous, viridescent on lateral frontal spaces and occiput, gulae, basal part of mentum on each side of median tooth brightly viridescent; prothorax atrous, with viridescent tints on disc and wide brassy-green basal and lateral margins.1917, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
Adjective (2)
IPA/əˈtɹuː/
atrous (not comparable)
- Dilated (used when describing convolutions).
- Atrous convolution allows us to explicitly control the resolution.
- The new approach is executed by using atrous and gabor wavelets that work effectively on image and video.2008, Sharon Priya, A. Srinivasan, “Image and Video Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform Domain Using Atrous and Gabor Wavelets”, in Proceedings Second International Conference on Information...
Examples of atrous in a sentence
- Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged.1968, Iconographia Mycologica - Issues 22-27:
- An imposing portrait of a Caucasian male holding an atrous book with a sheepish smile hung ominously over the bed.2013, DB Angel, The Gift, page 13:
- In order to further illustrate the effect of "atrous" convolution, we compare it with standard convolution using a simple example in Figure 4.2019, Qi Wang, Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images, page 158:
- As the frameworks based on atrous convolution and ASPP module have proved their success, we implement an encoder with similar structure of [5], using a pretrained ResNetV2 as backbone network.2019, Guanhong Zhang, Muyi Sun, Xiaoguang Zhou, “Sub-pixel Upsampling Decode Network for Semantic Segmentation”, in Artificial...
Forms of atrous
| comparative | more atrous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most atrous |
Origin of atrous
From Latin āter (“dark, black”) + -ous.
From French à trous (“with holes”).
Words that rhyme with atrous
Questions about atrous
- What does atrous mean?
- Atrous means jet-black in color.
- How do you use atrous in a sentence?
- Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged.
- What part of speech is atrous?
- Atrous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce atrous?
- Atrous is pronounced /ˈeɪtɹəs/.
Words near atrous in the dictionary
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