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present participle and gerund of smooth examples
plural smoothings
The act by which something is made smooth. quotations examples
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
(phonetics, phonology) Monophthongization.
(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. examples