wavelet

Questions about wavelet

What does wavelet mean?

wavelet means "a small wave on the surface of a liquid".

How many syllables are in wavelet?

wavelet has 3 syllables and divides as wa-ve-let under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wavelet?

Close synonyms include ripple, rippling, riffle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wavelet a common word?

wavelet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wavelet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.