What's the difference between wave and wavelet?

Wave


Definition:

  • (v. t.) See Waive.
  • (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
  • (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.
  • (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
  • (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.
  • (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
  • (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
  • (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
  • (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
  • (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
  • (v. i.) Water; a body of water.
  • (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.
  • (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
  • (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Woe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (3) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
  • (5) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (6) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (7) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
  • (8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
  • (9) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
  • (10) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
  • (11) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
  • (12) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
  • (13) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
  • (14) Yet in 4 patients in whom no aortic late systolic pressure wave was apparent (group II), nitroprusside did not alter the difference between aortic and radial systolic pressures.
  • (15) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (16) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
  • (17) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (18) In only six patients (14%) the ventricular tachycardia was initiated by an ectopic ventricular complex interrupting the T wave.
  • (19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (20) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.

Wavelet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little wave; a ripple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Positive wavelets preceding the primary cortical response were also diminished by the occlusion, suggesting that ischemia affected the thalamocortical white matter.
  • (2) Most significantly, however, it can also track sporadic or nonstationary irregularities in the shape of an individual acoustic wavelet.
  • (3) Wavelets were introduced by Grossman and Morlet in 1984.
  • (4) Latency and amplitude for various wavelets were plotted against signal intensity.
  • (5) The number of circuits and wavelets increased in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (6) These functional distinctions between the last and the earlier wavelets are consistent with their representing the activity of different retinal generators.
  • (7) As the electrode was advanced proximally, the wavelets disappeared as a function of retinal depth.
  • (8) Following far-field potential of P14 after median nerve stimulation, we identified several small wavelets, designated here as fast frequency potentials or FFP, over the ascending and descending phases of the major negative wave of 'N20.'
  • (9) The spin density can be reconstructed with an inverse wavelet transform.
  • (10) Each wavelet had an amplitude maximum at a certain stimulus intensity level.
  • (11) It was supposed that this was the site of re-entry for a cycling wavelet subsidiary to the main flutter wave.
  • (12) It is often preceded by a brief wavelet of depolarization ascribed to the so-called back-response.4.
  • (13) Oscillatory potentials resembling those seen in human VEPs are observed riding on N40; analysis of MUA in conjunction with sources and sinks coincident with these wavelets provides evidence that they derive from both thalamocortical and cortical activity.
  • (14) Wavelets are already used for speech recognition, geophysics investigations and fractal analysis.
  • (15) The OPs consisted of three to four wavelets with a mean peak interval of approximately 6.5 msec, consistent with that recorded with conventional full-field stimuli over the entire retina.
  • (16) Rods responded to red flicker with discrete wavelets up to 5 Hz.
  • (17) Regardless of the number of OP wavelets, the last OP wavelet increased in amplitude and decreased in implicit time to a greater extent than did the earlier wavelet(s).
  • (18) HNR, however, is usually inflated by cycle-to-cycle variations of fundamental frequency period because zero padding is used for time normalization of the wavelet.
  • (19) Other time-frequency representations, such as the Wigner distribution, short-time spectral estimators, and the wavelet transform, have also been investigated.
  • (20) The wavelet transform, which is the decomposition of a signal into a set of independent frequency channels, is shown to be a useful diagnostic tool in the analysis of heartbeat sounds.

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