Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun relaxation_method

1 sense of relaxation method

Sense 1
relaxation, relaxation method -- (a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount)
       => mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation -- ((mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic")