"smoothness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-smoothness.wav [UK] Forms: smoothnesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English smothenesse; equivalent to smooth + -ness. Compare Old English smēþnes (“smoothness, a smooth place, a level surface”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|smothenesse}} Middle English smothenesse, {{suffix|en|smooth|ness}} smooth + -ness, {{cog|ang|smēþnes|t=smoothness, a smooth place, a level surface}} Old English smēþnes (“smoothness, a smooth place, a level surface”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} smoothness (countable and uncountable, plural smoothnesses)
  1. The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (condition of being smooth): ողորկություն (oġorkutʿyun) (Armenian), гла́дкасць (hládkascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), yumok (Bikol Central), гладкост (gladkost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), gladheid (Dutch), pehmeys (Finnish), tasaisuus (Finnish), Glätte [feminine] (German), simaság (Hungarian), glateso (Ido), levigatezza [feminine] (Italian), lēvitās [feminine] (Latin), gludums [masculine] (Latvian), smethenesse (Middle English), smothenesse (Middle English), دوزلك (düzlük) (Ottoman Turkish), gładkość [feminine] (Polish), suavidade [feminine] (Portuguese), гла́дкость (gládkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), гла́дкість (hládkistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-smoothness-en-noun-x0NiyZ8f Disambiguation of 'condition of being smooth': 97 2 1
  2. (mathematical analysis, of a function) The highest order of derivative (the differentiability class) over a given domain. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematical analysis
    Sense id: en-smoothness-en-noun-uHaaRpkF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 67 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 21 61 18 Topics: mathematical-analysis, mathematics, sciences
  3. (approximation theory, numerical analysis, of a function) The quantity measured by the modulus of smoothness. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-smoothness-en-noun-Kn3yc0qK
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: modulus of smoothness Related terms: differentiability class, modulus of continuity, modulus of smoothness, uniform continuity

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      "roman": "düzlük",
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      "word": "دوزلك"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "condition of being smooth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gładkość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "condition of being smooth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "suavidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gládkostʹ",
      "sense": "condition of being smooth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гла́дкость"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hládkistʹ",
      "sense": "condition of being smooth",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гла́дкість"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "smoothness"
  ],
  "word": "smoothness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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