smoothness
smoothness noun: the condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
Noun
smoothness (countable and uncountable, plural smoothnesses)
- The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
- The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.1946 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 213
- The ‘smoothness’ of distributions can be understood in various senses, this is why we used quotation marks before; further we will drop them. The smoothness can be understood as the differentiability of the distribution function, boundedness of some of its derivatives, the existence of the...1998, Vladimir V. Senatov, Normal Approximation: New Results, Methods and Problems, Walter de Gruyter (VSP), page 32
- The highest order of derivative (the differentiability class) over a given domain.
- Smoothness can vary from 0 (for a nondifferentiable function) to infinity (for a smooth function).
- The quantity measured by the modulus of smoothness.
- A central problem in approximation theory is to characterize the best approximation of a function by polynomials, or other classes of simple functions, in terms of the smoothness of the function. In this chapter, we study the characterization of the best approximation by polynomials on the sphere....2013, Feng Dai, Yuan Xu, Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis on Spheres and Balls, Springer, page 79
smoothness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
smoothness in Hindi
- condition of being smooth
- चिकनाई ciknāī
smoothness in Tamil
- வழவழப்பு, வழுவழுப்பு, நெகுநெகுப்பு
smoothness in Urdu
- چکنا پن, ملاست, نرمی, روانگی, صفائی
smoothness in Bengali
- মসৃণতা, পারিপাট্য
More languagesFewer languages
- smoothness in Telugu
- నయగారము nayagāramu, సౌమ్యము saumyamu, జవరన javarana, నునుపు nunupu
- smoothness in Malayalam
- മിനുസം minusaṁ
- smoothness in Odia
- ଚିକଣା cikaṇā
- smoothness in Sanskrit
- स्नेह snéha
Examples of smoothness in a sentence
- The ‘smoothness’ of distributions can be understood in various senses, this is why we used quotation marks before; further we will drop them.1998, Vladimir V. Senatov, Normal Approximation: New Results, Methods and Problems, Walter de Gruyter (VSP), page 32:
- With it,^([a pavement profile]) paving operations can be adjusted "on the fly" to maintain or improve smoothness.2013, Robert Otto Rasmussen, “et al.”, in Real-time Smoothness Measurements on Portland Cement Concrete Pavements During Construction...
- A central problem in approximation theory is to characterize the best approximation of a function by polynomials, or other classes of simple functions, in terms of the smoothness of the function.2013, Feng Dai, Yuan Xu, Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis on Spheres and Balls, Springer, page 79:
Antonyms of smoothness
Forms of smoothness
| plural | smoothnesses |
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Origin of smoothness
From Middle English smothenesse; equivalent to smooth + -ness. Compare Old English smēþnes (“smoothness, a smooth place, a level surface”).
Words formed from smoothness
- modulus of smoothness
- nonsmoothness
Questions about smoothness
- What does smoothness mean?
- Smoothness means the condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
- What is smoothness in Hindi?
- Smoothness in Hindi is चिकनाई (ciknāī). See Smoothness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use smoothness in a sentence?
- The ‘smoothness’ of distributions can be understood in various senses, this is why we used quotation marks before; further we will drop them.
- What part of speech is smoothness?
- Smoothness is a noun.
- What is the plural of smoothness?
- The plural of smoothness is smoothnesses.
Words near smoothness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoothness (page history and authors); smoothness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smoothness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smoothness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); జవరన (Telugu) (page history and authors); മിനുസം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ଚିକଣା (Odia) (page history and authors); स्नेह (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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