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Definition of Mollifier
1. n. One who, or that which, mollifies.
Definition of Mollifier
1. Noun. (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. ¹
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Definition of Mollifier
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollifier
Literary usage of Mollifier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Browning, Sordello, Hi. mollifier (mol'i-fi-er), ». One who or that which mollifies.
Bui-mi. mollify (inol'i-fl), «. ; prêt, and pp. mollified, ..."
2. Fleming and Tibbins -- Abridged: A New and Complete French and English and by Charles Fleming, J. Tibbins, Charles Picot, Judah Dobson (1852)
"Molestation, s. vexation,/, peine,/. mollifier, s. emollient; (fig.) pacificateur,
m. ... amollir, mollifier; Moment, s. un moment, ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"The root seemeth to have a tender dainty heat ; which when it cometh above ground
to the sun and the air, vanisheth : for it is a great mollifier ; and hath ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... the body ;' Sir T. Elyot, Castel of Helth, b. ii. c. 9. [The sb. mollification is
in Chaucer, CT 16322.] - OF mollifier, ' to molline ; ' Cot. ..."
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