mollifier
nounEtymology From mollify + -er.
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One who mollifies.
- […] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]1705, Henry Sheeres, A Discourse concerning the Mediterranean Sea, and the Streights of Gibraltar:
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Mathematics, Sciences An "approximation to the identity", a smooth function with special properties, used in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution.
- I particularly remember how, at that time, I was using his mollifier method to study the zero density of L-functions and was stuck with something.2009, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 6: