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nonsmoothness en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + smoothness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being nonsmooth, roughness
    • In the context of global optimization and mixed-integer non\-linear programming, generalizing a technique of D'Ambrosio, Fampa, Lee and Vigerske for handling the square-root function, we develop a virtuous smoothing method, using cubics, aimed at functions having some limited nonsmoothness. 2016, Jon Lee, Daphne Skipper, “Virtuous smoothing for global optimization”, in arXiv: