Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small wave; a ripple.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small wave; a ripple.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A little wave; a ripple.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small wave; a ripple.
  • noun mathematics A fast-decaying oscillation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small wave on the surface of a liquid

Etymologies

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Calqued on French ondelette, from onde (wave) + -ette (-let)

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Examples

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net mechanism 2010

  • It uses a new and powerful method of filtering noise that is a generation above the popular "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • The wavelet is the entity to which Concurrency Control/Operational Transformations apply.

    PlanetJava 2009

  • "wavelet" - based algorithms that other noise reduction products currently use.

    2BakSa.Net 2009

  • This should be compared to other high-compression techniques such as wavelet compression, not things like JPG.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

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