Crossword clues for smoothness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smoothness \Smooth"ness\, n. Quality or state of being smooth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "smoothness, evenness," from smooth (adj.) + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being smooth.
WordNet
n. a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch [ant: roughness]
the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
Wikipedia
In mathematical analysis, the smoothness of a function is a property measured by the number of derivatives it has which are continuous. A smooth function is a function that has derivatives of all orders everywhere in its domain.
In probability theory and statistics, smoothness of a density function is a measure which determines how many times the density function can be differentiated, or equivalently the limiting behavior of distribution’s characteristic function.
Formally, we call the distribution of a random variable X ordinary smooth of order β if its characteristic function satisfies
d∣t∣ ≤ φ(t) ≤ d∣t∣ as t → ∞for some positive constants d, d, β. The examples of such distributions are gamma, exponential, uniform, etc.
The distribution is called supersmooth of order β if its characteristic function satisfies
$d_0 |t|^{\beta_0}\exp\big(-|t|^\beta/\gamma\big) \leq \varphi_X(t) \leq d_1 |t|^{\beta_1}\exp\big(-|t|^\beta/\gamma\big) \quad \text{as } t\to\infty$for some positive constants d, d, β, γ and constants β, β. Such supersmooth distributions have derivatives of all orders. Examples: normal, Cauchy, mixture normal.
Usage examples of "smoothness".
There was so much of her, such incredibly long legs, such an extreme flow of line and volume, Beheim became entranced by the exaggerated perspectives available, gazing up at the equatorial swell of her belly toward the flattened mounds of her breasts with their dark oases of areola and turreted nipples, or down from her breasts toward the unruly pubic tuft between her thighs, in all reminding him by its smoothness of the sand sculpture of a sleeping giantess he had seen years before on a beach in Spain.
The areolas pebbled roughly, contrasting with the delicate smoothness of the skin surrounding it.
To this cause perhaps, united to their frequent bathing and extreme cleanliness, is ascribable, in a great measure, the marvellous purity and smoothness of skin exhibited by the natives in general.
The skeleton was perhaps the least ludicrous of the party, for it was clean of grave-dust, and no atrophied muscles clung to its ivory smoothness.
His hands slid over the wide, sweet curve of her hips, cupping smoothness cool and solid, timeless and graceful as the swell of ancient pottery, promising abundance.
Lear signally exemplified, through every phase of passion, that temperance which should give it smoothness.
As for me, I ate of fishes that never swam in earthly seas, and of strange fowl that never flapped a way through thick terrestrial air, ate and drank as happy as a king, and falling each moment more and more in love with the wonderfully beautiful girl at my side who was a real woman of flesh and blood I knew, yet somehow so dainty, so pink and white, so unlike other girls in the smoothness of her outlines, in the subtle grace of each unthinking attitude, that again and again I looked at her over the rim of my tankard half fearing she might dissolve into nothing, being the half-fairy which she was.
Albert, who availed himself of the few minutes required to reach the opposite side of the theatre to settle the height and smoothness of his collar, and to arrange the lappets of his coat.
The smoothness that had astonished him that first day at Latchetts when he had ridden on the top of the down.
A small frown marred the smoothness of her forehead as Pilar absently brushed a hand over her mane of thick black hair and impatiently rose to her feet.
They have no buttocks, their breasts are small and hardly break the piscine smoothness of their shape, and their hair is but a patch of seal-like fur on then-scalps.
It had been hollow, and from the smoothness of its interior, I suspected that with the head removed it had formed a sabarcane for shooting poisoned darts.
Praise of constancy, moreover, smote shadowily a certain inconstant, enough to seem to ruffle her smoothness and do no hurt.
When the Oliat came to the foot of the stairs, she surprised herself with the smoothness of her deep obeisance, for the first time expressing, in the movement of her body, the emotions she felt for the Allegiancy Empire, the first galactic civilization granting full rights to all species.
Bonner popped another beer and offered it to his son, but the boy--man, Bonner had to start thinking of him as a man--shook his head and instead touched the padded dash, the windshield, the incredible smoothness of the side.