smoothing

English

Verb

smoothing

1. present participle and gerund of smooth

Noun

smoothing (plural smoothings)

1. 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.

2. (phonetics, phonology) Monophthongization.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• data smoothing
• exponential smoothing
• smoothing iron

 

Translations

act

• Esperanto: glatigo
• Indonesian: penghalusan

statistics

• Indonesian: penghalusan
• Malay: pelicinan