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mol·li·fi·ca·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mollificationnoun

    a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered

  2. pacification, mollificationnoun

    the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

    "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"

Wiktionary

  1. mollificationnoun

    The act of mollifying.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mollificationnoun

    Etymology: from mollify.

    For induration or mollification, it is to be inquired what will make metals harder and harder, and what will make them softer and softer. Francis Bacon.

    Some mollification, sweet lady. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. mollification

    In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth functions with special properties, used for example in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. Intuitively, given a function which is rather irregular, by convolving it with a mollifier the function gets "mollified", that is, its sharp features are smoothed, while still remaining close to the original nonsmooth (generalized) function.They are also known as Friedrichs mollifiers after Kurt Otto Friedrichs, who introduced them.

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  1. mollification

    Mollification is the process of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something, appeasing someone, or softening a statement or fact. It can also refer to the mathematical technique of creating mollifiers to modify or smooth out functions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mollificationnoun

    the act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening

  2. Etymology: [LL. mollificatio; cf. F. mollification.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mollification in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mollification in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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