Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mollifier

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mol-li-fi-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who mollifies.

noun

An "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.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From mollify + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mollify

Inflected Forms

mollifiers (plural)

Questions

What does mollifier mean?: One who mollifies.
Where does mollifier come from?: From mollify + -er.

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