smoothing
noun1
The act by which something is made smooth.
- For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Monophthongization.
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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics creation of an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.
- Derived terms
- data smoothing, exponential smoothing, smoothing iron, undersmoothing