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mollifier

noun

Etymology

From mollify + -er.

  1. derived from mollis
  2. derived from mollificō
  3. inherited from mollifien
  4. suffixed as mollifier — “mollify + er”

Definitions

  1. One who mollifies.

    • […] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]

  2. An "approximation to the identity", a smooth function with special properties, used in…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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