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wedgelet

wedgelet noun: a small wedge.

Noun

wedgelet (plural wedgelets)

  1. A small wedge.
  2. (image processing) A kind of geometrical wavelet used in image processing.
  3. One of a set of wedge-like structures (barometric ridges) that compose a substorm current wedge.
    • If so, each wedgelet in the magnetotail should contain an asymmetric pair of FACs, as illustrated in Figure 19.9b (adapted from Liu et al. [2015]).2018, Andreas Keiling, Octav Marghitu, Michael Wheatland ·, Electric Currents in Geospace and Beyond, page 332

Forms of wedgelet

pluralwedgelets

Origin of wedgelet

* wedge + -let. * (image processing): Introduced in David L. Donoho's 1999 paper "Wedgelets: nearly minimax estimation of edges".

Questions about wedgelet

What does wedgelet mean?
Wedgelet means a small wedge.
What part of speech is wedgelet?
Wedgelet is a noun.
What is the plural of wedgelet?
The plural of wedgelet is wedgelets.

Words near wedgelet in the dictionary

  1. wedged up
  2. wedgefish
  3. wedgefishes
  4. wedgehead
  5. wedgeheads
  6. wedgelet
  7. wedgelets
  8. wedgelike
  9. wedgemussel
  10. wedgemussels
  11. wedger

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