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mollifiers

mollifiers is the plural of mollifier.

Meaning of mollifier

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

Questions about mollifiers

What is mollifiers the plural of?
Mollifiers is the plural of mollifier.

Words near mollifiers in the dictionary

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

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