smoothing
English
Verb
smoothing
Noun
smoothing (plural smoothings)
- The act by which something is made smooth.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
- For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way.
- (phonetics, phonology) Monophthongization.