0 present participle of simplify
1 to make something less complicated and therefore easier to do or understand:
They are trying to simplify the regulations.
Let's try and simplify the task by cutting out the checking stage.
If you try to simplify philosophy too much, you lose its essence.
First, several simplifying assumptions surrounding the disease process and treatment were necessary to construct the model.
And the complexity of the whole acoustic system can be 'dumbed down' with the elimination of the body resonances, simplifying feature recognition.
Both are elegant surveys of familiar ground and both summarize complex arguments without ever simplifying them.
In this method, the kinematic errors are allocated to the joints such that the loop equations are exactly satisfied, simplifying the treatment of multi-loop mechanisms.
He makes the simplifying assumption that all such viewpoints are internally consistent.
