Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A diagram displaying the results of a survey, designed to determine whether the items form a scale for measuring some particular factor.

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  • noun signal processing A visual representation of a wavelet transform, having axes for time, scale, and coefficient value, analogous to a spectrogram.

Etymologies

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scale +‎ -o- +‎ -gram

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Examples

  • Each point in the scalogram is an integral of the signal times the wavelet, and one can evaluate the wavelet at the data points.

    Mo' Mo' Moberg « Climate Audit 2005

  • Greg, what wavelets provide compared to band pass filtering is localization, i.e. in a scalogram as the one on top of this page you can easily localize features at different times on different scales such as a max in the 2048 scale around year 1000.

    Mo' Mo' Moberg « Climate Audit 2005

  • A short distance in the high frequency part and longer as one goes to lower frequency scales, so all of the lowest frequency scales bottom part in the scalogram above will be affected by how the boundaries are handled.

    Mo' Mo' Moberg « Climate Audit 2005

  • The effects of the boundaries, and how they are treated, will spread into the scalogram a length that corresponds to the length of the wavelet at a certain scale.

    Mo' Mo' Moberg « Climate Audit 2005

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