smooth
Definitions
General English
- adjective with no bumps or rough parts
- adjective with no sudden unpleasant movements
Electronics
- Having a surface which is free from roughness, projections, irregularities, or the like.
- To polish or otherwise rid a surface of roughness, projections, irregularities, or the like.
- To remove voltage and/or current irregularities, such as ripple, present in a signal or generated by a source.
- To remove irregularities, inconsistencies, differences, or the like.
- Having an even motion, movement, or trajectory.
Medical
- adjective flat, not rough
- verb to make something smooth
Slang
- adjective good. An all-purpose term of approbation used by adolescents.
Wine
- used to describe a range of characteristics of a well-balanced wine
Origin & History of “smooth”
Smooth is a
mystery word,
with no known relatives in any
other Indo-European
language. The
usual term in Old
English was
smēthe,
which survived into
modern English
dialect speech as
smeeth.
Smooth comes
from the
late Old English variant
smōth.
