mollifier
The English word “mollifier” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- One who mollifies.
- 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.
Etymology
From mollify + -er.
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