faired

Verb

fair (third-person singular simple present fairs, present participle fairing, simple past and past participle faired)

1. (transitive) To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
2. (transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
3. (transitive) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
   • Since the sequence of data contain sampling noises, the captured motion is not smooth and wiggles along the moving path. There are well-known fairing algorithms in Euclidean space based on difference geometry.1996, Computer Animation '96: June 3-4, 1996, Geneva, Switzerland, page 136
4. (transitive) To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
   • Two forward cars were provided with the model. One of these (shown detached in Fig. 1) was faired at its after end, with a view to possible reduction of head resistance, and to induce a better flow of air to the propeller.1920, Technical Report of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, page 206

   Synonyms:

   to streamline

5. (obsolete, transitive) To make fair or beautiful.
   • Fairing the foul with art’s false borrow’d face1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 127”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
6. (intransitive) To become fair (favorable, not stormy).
   • [The] weather faired, and toward midday we were again facing the fringe of breakers from the cliffs.1891, Percival Lowell, Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan, IndyPublish.com, page 211

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