noun
smoothing
noun
1
The act or process of making something smooth.
"The smoothing of the plaster took most of the afternoon."
2
(statistics) A technique for revealing overall trends in data by reducing noise.
"The analyst applied smoothing to the sales graph to see the underlying trend."
How to Use Smoothing
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe process of making a surface even, or of filtering out noise from data to see the underlying pattern.
Common pairings
data smoothing
skin smoothing
Word Forms
smoothings plural
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