smoothing
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]smoothing
- present participle and gerund of smooth
Noun
[edit]smoothing (plural smoothings)
- The act by which something is made smooth.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
- 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.
- (phonetics, phonology) Monophthongization.
- (statistics) 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.
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