noun
Meaning 1
A small wedge.
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wedgelet
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noun
Meaning 2
A kind of geometrical wavelet used in image processing.
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Qualifier: image processing
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noun
Meaning 3
One of a set of wedge-like structures (barometric ridges) that compose a substorm current wedge.
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Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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History
Etymology
* wedge + -let. * (image processing): Introduced in David L. Donoho's 1999 paper "Wedgelets: nearly minimax estimation of edges".