0 past simple and past participle of smooth
1 to move your hands across something in order to make it flat:
He straightened his tie nervously and smoothed (down) his hair.
2 to remove difficulties and make something easier to do or achieve:
3 to cover the surface of something with a liquid or soft substance, using gentle rubbing movements:
The heart rate acceleration is calculated by differentiating the smoothed heart rate signal.
We have chosen to use dilation and compactness here, because we will use the same technique again when bounding smoothed projections.
In these poor resolution data sets, cytoarchitectonic regions and their boundaries are smoothed across these large volumes.
However, in the low density foam region, the radiation energy can be confined and the implosion non-uniformity is smoothed.
Cross-correlograms were neither filtered nor smoothed, and bin-widths were 0.1 msec.
The edges of these sherds had been smoothed and holes pierced through the centres.
By comparing conditions 7 and 8, we see that blurred or smoothed contours showed a weaker discoloration effect than focused and discrete contours.
For both tasks, we examine the influence of raw and smoothed frequencies on the classification task with or without affix related information.