Pronunciation: l ə - ' pläs-, - ' plas-
Function: noun
Etymology: Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace
Date: 1942
: a transformation of a function f(x) into the function g ( t ) = ∫ 0 ∞ e - xt f ( x ) dx that is useful especially in reducing the solution of an ordinary linear differential equation with constant coefficients to the solution of a polynomial equation