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smooth

  1. Infinitely differentiable; possessing infinitely many derivatives. For example, sin(x) is a smooth function, while |x|3 is not. More complicated mathematical objects such as manifolds are called smooth if they are defined or described by smooth functions.

  2. Continuously differentiable; possessing a continuous tangent or derivative.

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