wedgelet

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

wedgelet (plural wedgelets)

  1. A small wedge.
  2. (image processing) A kind of geometrical wavelet used in image processing.
  3. (astronomy) One of a set of wedge-like structures (barometric ridges) that compose a substorm current wedge.
    • 2018, Andreas Keiling, Octav Marghitu, Michael Wheatland ·, Electric Currents in Geospace and Beyond, page 332:
      If so, each wedgelet in the magnetotail should contain an asymmetric pair of FACs, as illustrated in Figure 19.9b (adapted from Liu et al. ).