English Explanatory Dictionary

wedgelet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small wedge.
  2. 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.

Word forms

wedgelet wedgelets

Etymology

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

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