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nonsmoothness

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ smoothness.

Noun

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nonsmoothness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being nonsmooth, roughness
    • 2016, Jon Lee, Daphne Skipper, “Virtuous smoothing for global optimization”, in arXiv[1]:
      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.