mollifier — ⇒MOLLIFIER, verbe trans. Vx., MÉD. Rendre mou. Cela sert à mollifier les humeurs. Un cataplasme pour mollifier une tumeur (Ac. 1798 1878). La pitié détend toutes mes fibres et mollifie mes nerfs (BALZAC, Lys, 1836, p.87). Prononc. et Orth.:[ ].… … Encyclopédie Universelle
mollifier — Mollifier. v. a. Terme de Medecine. Rendre mol & fluide. Cela sert à mollifier les humeurs … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Mollifier — Mol li*fi er, n. One who, or that which, mollifies. Bacon. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
mollifier — Mollifier, act. acut. Faire ou rendre mol, Mollire, Macerare … Thresor de la langue françoyse
Mollifier — A mollifier (top) in dimension one. At the bottom, in red is a function with a corner (left) and sharp jump (right), and in blue is its mollified version. In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth… … Wikipedia
MOLLIFIER — v. a. T. de Médec. Rendre mou et fluide. Cela sert à mollifier les humeurs. Un cataplasme pour mollifier une tumeur . MOLLIFIÉ, ÉE. participe … Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)
mollifier — noun ( s) : one that mollifies vinegar … is itself a prime corrector and mollifier Thomas Fuller … Useful english dictionary
mollifier — See mollifiable. * * * … Universalium
mollifier — noun 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 … Wiktionary
mollifier — mÉ‘lɪfaɪə(r) n. something that calms or eases, something which pacifies … English contemporary dictionary