0 present 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:
These small non-linearities are reproduced at a large range of different smoothing levels.
An example of a locally weighted regression smoother is a cubic smoothing spline.
At the moment of the arrival of the main pulse, a conduction zone is already formed and thus a more effective thermal smoothing is observed.
Such smoothing would greatly reduce any statistical fluctuations in the magnetic-field measurements.
We shall determine the algebra of complete symbols by computing the quotient by smoothing operators.
However, using such incentives implies that consumption smoothing will not be achieved when the outcome of the investment decision is uncertain.
The second term on the right is for minimizing the joint velocity, thus smoothing the motion as well as minimizing energy consumption.
In this region, smoothing proceeds at the diffusion rate alone, since the production rate of new interface between fluid constituents is not an important factor.
