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smoothing

[′smüth·iŋ]
(engineering)
Making a level, or continuously even, surface.
(mathematics)
Approximating or perturbing a function by one which has a higher degree of differentiability.
(statistics)
A process that uses either freehand methods, moving averages, or fitting a curve by least squares method to remove fluctuations in the data in a time series.
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