mollifier
English
Noun
mollifier (plural mollifiers)
- One who mollifies.
- Lord Halifax
- […] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]
- Lord Halifax
- (mathematics) 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.
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