0 present participle of smear
2 to publicly accuse someone of something unpleasant, unreasonable, or unlikely to be true in order to harm their reputation:
On the other hand, audio example 3 presents a case in which smearing is critical.
This is a result of the spread in relativistic masses of the electrons (over the whole distribution) 'smearing out' the cyclotron resonances.
Another characteristic of hall ambience is the reduction of clarity through the 'smearing' of one sound into the next by the reverberation.
If there were such things as essentially invisible people, smearing their faces with opaque grease paint would render them visible.
This equates to a delay of 1.87 ms, which can be attributed to temporal smearing.
The effects of currents enhance this transverse smearing process.
As stimulus size increases this spectral smearing is reduced and responses to non-preferred stimuli are reduced or abolished.
The definition implicitly incorporates smearing effects of molecular diffusion and instrumental averaging.
