smooth over something

smooth | Business English

smooth
verb[ T ]
uk /smuːð/us
in statistics, to change very high and very low numbers in a series in order to show the main direction of the series more clearly:
We've smoothed these figures so that you can see the overall picture more easily.

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Suppression of stochastic pulsation in laser-plasma interaction by smoothing methods.
Cross-correlograms were neither filtered nor smoothed, and bin-widths were 0.1 msec.
The second world war saw the famous work on prediction for antiaircraft gunfire, with implications for extrapolation, interpolation and smoothing more generally.
Figure 2 shows that, in this case, optimal policy smooths the short-run costs over time by taking a gradual approach to disinflation.
Our objective is to improve the performance of the trigram model for supertagging by smoothing one of its probability distributions.
When this happens, we have systematically checked that these distortions are smoothed out when a higher resolution (512 x 512) is employed.
However, using such incentives implies that consumption smoothing will not be achieved when the outcome of the investment decision is uncertain.
The second term on the right is for minimizing the joint velocity, thus smoothing the motion as well as minimizing energy consumption.
However, in the low density foam region, the radiation energy can be confined and the implosion non-uniformity is smoothed.
We have chosen to use dilation and compactness here, because we will use the same technique again when bounding smoothed projections.
Such smoothing would greatly reduce any statistical fluctuations in the magnetic-field measurements.
We shall determine the algebra of complete symbols by computing the quotient by smoothing operators.
As suggested above for woodworking, innovations that smoothed the flow of work were valued, but highly specialized machines that lacked versatility held little appeal.
Using the feature vector representation, tree frames are partitioned into tree families which are subsequently used for smoothing a supertagging model.
More specifically, much smoother transient and steady-state responses are obtained by using the modified schemes.
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