smooths

Noun

smooth (plural smooths)

1. Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
   • The smooth of his neck.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 27:16
2. A smoothing action.
   • She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting.2006, Julienne Van Loon, Road Story, →ISBN, page 12
3. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
   • In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.1916, William Ernest Castle, Sewall Wright, Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-pigs and Rats, page 104
4. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
   • By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant ‘white ethnic’ styles of the suedeheads and smooths.1999, Peter Childs, Mike Storry, Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture, →ISBN, page 188
5. The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
   • A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2.1990, Wolfgang Härdle, Applied Nonparametric Regression, →ISBN, page 17

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