To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
To abridge.
To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
A machine for compressing.
To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
To make smooth or even.
To make straightforward or easy.
To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
To calm or palliate.
To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
Smoothly.
The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
A smoothing action.
Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
Natural; unconstrained.
Not grainy; having an even texture.
Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
Involuntary and non-striated.
That factors completely into small prime numbers.
Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
Unbroken.
Lacking marked aspiration.
Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
Placid, calm.
Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
Suave; sophisticated.
Bland; glib.