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mollifier

mollifier noun: one who mollifies.

Noun

mollifier (plural mollifiers)

  1. One who mollifies.
    • […] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]1705, Henry Sheeres, A Discourse concerning the Mediterranean Sea, and the Streights of Gibraltar
  2. 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.
    • I particularly remember how, at that time, I was using his mollifier method to study the zero density of L-functions and was stuck with something.2009, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 6

Forms of mollifier

pluralmollifiers

Origin of mollifier

From mollify + -er.

Questions about mollifier

What does mollifier mean?
Mollifier means one who mollifies.
What part of speech is mollifier?
Mollifier is a noun.
What is the plural of mollifier?
The plural of mollifier is mollifiers.

Words near mollifier in the dictionary

  1. mollification
  2. mollifications
  3. mollifie
  4. mollified
  5. mollifiedly
  6. mollifier
  7. mollifiers
  8. mollifies
  9. mollify
  10. mollifying
  11. mollifyingly

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