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Vinony

wavelet

noun

  1. function for integral Fourier-like transform
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From wave + -let; a calque of French ondelette, from onde (“wave”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).

  1. A small wave; a ripple.

    “1851, “Speaker’s Meaning dimly descried” (Fragment) in Poems, London: William Pickering, p. 110, I know not whether I see your meaning: if I do, it lies Upon the wordy wavelets of your voice, Dim as an evening shadow in a brook, When the least moon has silver on’t no larger Than the pure white of Hebe’s nail.”

    “1856, Herman Melville, “The Piazza” in The Piazza Tales, New York: Dix & Edwards, pp. 6-7, […] long ground-swells roll the slanting grain, and little wavelets of grass ripple over upon the low piazza, as their beach, and the blown down of dandelions is wafted like the spray […]”

  2. A fast-decaying oscillation.