Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wedgelet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
wedgelet
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small wedge.

noun

A kind of geometrical wavelet used in image processing.

noun

One of a set of wedge-like structures (barometric ridges) that compose a substorm current wedge.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

wedgelets (plural)

Questions

What does wedgelet mean?
A small wedge.
Where does wedgelet come from?
* wedge + -let. * (image processing): Introduced in David L. Donoho's 1999 paper "Wedgelets: nearly minimax estimation of edges".

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