smoothing

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smoothing

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of smooth

noun smoothings

  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. Monophthongization.
  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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sleek, smooth out, smoothen, sinuate, slick, flowing, undulate, fluent, glossy, shine, satiny, marmorean, fast, easy, graceful, waxy

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@misc{smoothing_2026,
  title = {smoothing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smoothing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}