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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A method of obtaining a smoothed series or smooth curve from a series of irregular observed values and thus detecting any regular periodicity that may be concealed in those values: introduced into English meteorology by John C. Bloxam in 1858, but used in modified forms by many others previously.

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