Meaning

2 senses

  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.

Origin

From mollify + -er.

From mollify + -er.

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Forms

plural: mollifiers
Singularmollifier
Pluralmollifiers

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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