SMOOTHING meaning: Reducing noise to clarify data

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word smoothing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)

smoothing: Merriam-Webster
smoothing: Collins English Dictionary
smoothing: Vocabulary.com
Smoothing, smoothing: Wordnik
smoothing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
smoothing: Wiktionary
smoothing: Dictionary.com
smoothing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Smoothing (disambiguation), Smoothing (phonetics), Smoothing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Smoothing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
smoothing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Smoothing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
smoothing: FreeDictionary.org
Smoothing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

smoothing: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
SMOOTHING: Accounting Glossary
smoothing: Glossary of research economics
smoothing: Legal dictionary
Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Webopedia (No longer online)
smoothing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

smoothing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

smoothing: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
Smoothing: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
Smoothing: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
Statistics (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

smoothing: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (smoothing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is made smooth.
▸ noun:  (phonetics, phonology) Monophthongization.
▸ noun:  (statistics) creation of an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.

Similar:

sleek, glossy, smoothen, shine, slick, smooth out, sinuate, suave, undulate, Polish, more...

Opposite:

roughening, coarsening, unsmoothing, irregularizing

Types:

low pass, band pass, high pass, low shelf, high shelf, band stop, band reject, all pass, more...

Phrases:

exponential smoothing, smoothing out, smoothing over, Consumption smoothing, smoothing filter, more...

Adjectives:

exponential, final, spatial, simple, gaussian, double, single, adaptive, further, additional, local

Colors:

lavender, sky blue, mint green, soft pink, pale yellow, more...