Mollifier
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mollifier is a noun meaning One who mollifies.
Meaning
One who mollifies.
More Meanings
- (mathematics) 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.
Example Sentences
[…] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]
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.
Word Forms
- mollifiers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include salve, moll, muller, molline, moulter, mollie.
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