Smoothing

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is made smooth.

    "For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way."

  2. 2
    Monophthongization.
  3. 3
    creation of an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of smooth form-of, gerund, participle, present

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