English Explanatory Dictionary

mollifier

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who mollifies.
  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.

Word forms

mollifier mollifiers

Etymology

From mollify + -er.

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