 ##  [Mollification](/mollification) 

  ##  [Mollification](https://puremath.quantumdictionary.io/mollification-0) 

  
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Definition

The operation of smoothing a function by convolving it with a family of smooth, compactly supported kernels (mollifiers) that approximate the identity as the scale parameter tends to zero; produces smooth approximants of possibly rough functions.