A small wave or ripple, often used to describe a minor undulation on the surface of water.
The gentle breeze created wavelets on the surface of the pond.
In mathematics and signal processing, a wavelet is a function used to divide a continuous-time function into different scale components, often used for data compression and noise reduction.
The engineer used a wavelet transform to analyze the signal data more efficiently.
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Relating to or employing wavelets or wavelet analysis.
Wavelet methods provide efficient image-compression algorithms.