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Synonyms for spline

a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines

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a thin strip (wood or metal)

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Some algorithms for quartic smoothing splines. Acta Univ.
Hermite interpolation by periodic splines with equidistant knots.
The QTc for atrial paced data was corrected using the new spline QTc (Spline), https://elenaszefer.shinyapps.
In addition, it employs helical splines as both convenient shaft-impeller coupling systems and actuators suitable to adjust the entity of the load transferred to each thrust bearing.
It is remarkable that, for the boundary value problem with second order linear differential equation, on uniform mesh, the collocation with cubic splines has the rate O([h.sup.2]) [10,17,18] but the subdomain method has O([h.sup.4]) [15, 18].
For the second one, mechanical sliding along axial direction is generated between the internal and external splines. Thus, the failure caused by mechanical (abrasive) wear is serious.
Gordon and Riesenfeld introduced the curves that used the base splines as combined functions and these curves were called B-spline curves.
In applying spline methods, three features of splines play important roles:
The new technique was based on the fact of employing polynomial cubic spline method (PCSM) along with the Adomian decomposition method (ADM).
In each subinterval, the PSD is approximated by a spline (piecewise polynomial) [s.sup.(l).sub.i](x) of degree l; thus, there exist (l + 1)m unknowns.
Schumaker presents students and math instructors with an explanation of the key algorithms needed for computing with spline functions.