mollifier

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noun

One who mollifies.

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Meanings

nounmollifier (plural mollifiers)

plural mollifiers

  1. One who mollifies.

    […] the Lord Treasurer, who ever secretly feigned himself to be a Moderator and Mollifier of the Catholicks Afflictions […]

    1705, Henry Sheeres, A Discourse concerning the Mediterranean Sea, and the Streights of Gibraltar
  2. mathematicsAn "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.

    I particularly remember how, at that time, I was using his mollifier method to study the zero density of L-functions and was stuck with something.

    2009, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 6

Origin

From mollify + -er.

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