smooth function

English

Etymology

smooth + function

Noun

smooth function (plural smooth functions)

(mathematics) a function that has derivatives of all finite orders everywhere in its domain.
- 2003, Eric W. Weisstein, CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, →ISBN, page 419:
  Any ANALYTIC FUNCTION is smooth. But a smooth function is not necessarily analytic.

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