As b varies smoothly between these two extremes, all the in-between points on the contract curve are traced out.
We require that the family vary smoothly by assuming to be a manifold and to be smooth.
These objects do not vary smoothly, but have distinct, separated values.
The melting temperature varies smoothly between the two endmembers, as do other properties.
The pitch usually remains constant or varies smoothly, and may change direction as many as four or five times.
However, one would like to know whether it is possible to choose the orientations so that they "vary smoothly" from point to point.
This technique assumed a stratigraphic template with unit thicknesses either constant or smoothly varying across the section.
Pressure varies smoothly from the Earth's surface to the top of the mesosphere.
The method approximates a local optimum of a problem with N variables when the objective function varies smoothly and is unimodal.
It was round in cross section, and its color varied smoothly from rich forest green to dark maple.