Mexican hat

Shady southwestern topper

Mexican hat names several things sharing a distinctive shape: a wide brim curving up around a raised center.

The sombrero worn in Mexico is the prototype.

A Mexican hat is also a wildflower (*Ratibida columnifera*) whose drooping petals surround a tall central cone.

In mathematics and signal processing, the Mexican hat wavelet describes a function whose graph resembles this silhouette.

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brim size and structure

Mexican hatskullcap

Tight-fitting brimless cap

beanie · yarmulke · baseball cap · fez · toque

cultural/regional origin

Mexican hattop hat

Tall formal headwear

bowler hat · ushanka · beret · homburg · turban

mathematical function shape

Mexican hatstep function

Piecewise constant graph

Family

Mexican, Mexico, hat, hats, hatted, hatter, hatters

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G