wavelet
a small wave; ripple.
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How to use wavelet in a sentence
In an increasingly data-driven world, mathematical tools known as wavelets have become an indispensable way to analyze and understand information.
How Wavelets Allow Researchers to Transform, and Understand, Data | Alexander Hellemans | October 13, 2021 | Quanta MagazineI lifted my facetoward the sun, closed my eyes until I could seethe wavelets behind my eyelidsbegin to move again.
Recalling a pandemic year with poetry and machine learning art | Seth Blanchard, Shikha Subramaniam, Leo Dominguez | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostHe felt himself caught in a mighty eddy, bearing he knew not whither; he, one wavelet amid the sea's myriads.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisIn its place a turbid leaden flood without a sparkling wavelet extended all around.
The Log of a Sea-Waif | Frank T. BullenEvery wavelet on the waters hushed itself asleep, and the whole surface of the lake was as a sea of polished glass.
Winter Adventures of Three Boys | Egerton R. Young
It was to him as if a miniature wavelet of a great ocean somewhere in the distance had crept up to laugh and break at his feet.
Red Pottage | Mary CholmondeleyNow and then a wavelet stole far into the beach, as if to caress him, but pined away ere it could reach its goal.
The House of the Vampire | George Sylvester Viereck
British Dictionary definitions for wavelet
/ (ˈweɪvlɪt) /
a small wave
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Scientific definitions for wavelet
[ wāv′lĭt ]
A small wave; a ripple. See more at wave.
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