0 present participle of smear --
1 to spread a liquid or a thick substance over a surface: --
2 to publicly accuse someone of something unpleasant, unreasonable, or unlikely to be true in order to harm their reputation: --
With a thicker medium a higher emission is achieved, but at the expense of smearing the spatial pattern.
This extremely high ver tical dispersion considerable reduces the apparatus smearing introduced by a finite source size and the detector pixel.
However, in the second use the verb becomes a metaphor for the smearing of colour, presaged by the verb ' ' glazed.
The trick was to separate smearing of the energy parameter caused by inaccurate observations from intrinsic smearing of the real new comet orbits.
The relationship between these quantities is derived by smearing the perturbation velocity distribution over the surface to give a continuous velocity distribution.
When you make an eye saccade, the sensory stimulation provided by an object will change drastically due to very strong retinal smearing.
If soils are at, or above, field capacity, smearing and compaction are to be expected.
The definition implicitly incorporates smearing effects of molecular diffusion and instrumental averaging.
