• Arabic:
• Chinese: 平滑 (pínghuá)
• Crimean Tatar: tegiz
• Czech: hladký
• Dutch: glad
• Finnish: sileä
• French: lisse
• German: glatt
• Hebrew: חָלָק (khalak)
• Hungarian: sima
• Irish: caoin
• Italian: liscio, mellifluo
• Japanese: 滑らかな (なめらかな, nameraka na)
• Korean: 매끄러운 (maekkeureo-un)
• Kurdish:
• Polish: gładki
• Portuguese: liso
• Russian: гладкий (gládkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìn, sèimh, socrach, tlàth
• Spanish: liso
• Swedish: jämn, len, hal, slät
• Telugu: నున్నటి (nunnaTi)
• Turkish: pürüzsüz

• Czech: hladký
• Dutch: vlot
• Finnish: sujuva, kitkaton

Derived terms

• smoothen
• smoothie
• smoothly
• smoothness
• smooth jazz
• smooth move
• smooth muscle
• smooth operator
• smooth sailing

Noun

1. Something which is smooth or easy.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=U88BAAAAQAAJ|page=81

     Things are often equalized by roughs and smooths being set against one another.

2. A smoothing action.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=oD661LYR7poC|page=12

     She brushes down her hair with a little bit of spit and a smooth of her hand and opens the bright green door, walking a few metres, squinting.

3. A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=rM20mPisnVEC|page=104

     In the 4-toe stock there is a wide gap between the lowest rough and the smooths which come from the same parents.

4. A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=2_3xXme4Q7sC|page=188

     By the early 1970s, skinhead culture began to mutate into the variant 'white ethnic' styles of the suedeheads and smooths.

5. The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=SF_4pzssFSQC|page=17

     A smooth of the potato data set has already been given in Figure 1.2.

Verb

1. To make smooth. (also "smoothe")
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=K8OcWWjRNKoC|page=37

     She smooths her skirt, looking as composed and ladylike as possible.

2. To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
   • http://books.google.com/books?id=a6m_I4a2fmsC|page=457

     the 7-month moving averages provide better smoothing of the data in this case than do the 3-month moving averages.

Derived terms

• smoother
• smoothing press

See also

• pedialite smoothing

Smooth could mean many things, including:

• Smooth (magazine)
• Smooth function, a function that is infinitely differentiable, used in calculus and topology.
• Smooth number, a number whose prime factors are all less than a certain value, used in applications of number theory.
• Smooth jazz, a subset of jazz music.
• Smooth (song), a hit song by Santana featuring Rob Thomas.
• Smooth FM, a radio station network in England.
  • Smooth FM 100.4, one of these in North West England.
• Smooth manifold.
• Smoothing, a statistical technique for handling data.
• Smooth criminal, a song by Michael Jackson.
• Draught beer served with nitrogen.
• Juanita Stokes, (aka "Smooth" or "The Female Mack") a rapper/singer infamous for her hit "Mind blowin'".

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