cusp
11Cusp — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Le terme cusp est un terme mathématique anglais recouvrant plusieurs notions distinctes. Parfois employé tel quel dans les textes mathématiques français,… …
12cusp — cuspal, adj. /kusp/, n. 1. a point or pointed end. 2. Anat., Zool., Bot. a point, projection, or elevation, as on the crown of a tooth. 3. Also called spinode. Geom. a point where two branches of a curve meet, end, and are tangent. 4. Archit. a… …
13cusp — [[t]kʌ̱sp[/t]] PHRASE: PHR after v, v link PHR If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state. I am sitting on the cusp of middle age... Mr Short s behaviour is… …
14Cusp — ♦ Point separating the foils (small arcs) in tracery. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 411) Note: cuspis Latin = point Related terms: Chamfer Cusp, Cusp Point, Sub Cusp …
15cusp — noun (C) 1 technical the point formed by two curves meeting 2 on the cusp someone who was born on the cusp was born near the time when one star sign ends and another one begins …
16cusp — [[t]kʌsp[/t]] n. 1) a point or pointed end 2) bio frm an anatomical point or prominence, as on the crown of a tooth or on a valve of the heart 3) math. a point where two branches of a curve meet, end, and are tangent 4) archit. an architectural… …
17cusp — noun Etymology: Latin cuspis point Date: 1585 point, apex: as a. a point of transition (as from one historical period to the next) ; turning point; also edge, verge < on the cusp of stardom > b. either hor …
18Cusp — In reference to heart valves, one of the triangular segments of the valve which opens and closes with the flow of blood. In reference to teeth, a raised area of the biting surface. * * * 1. In dentistry, a conical elevation arising on the surface …
19cusp — [kʌsp] noun 1》 a pointed end where two curves meet. ↘each of the pointed ends of the crescent moon. ↘a cone shaped prominence on the surface of a tooth. ↘Architecture a projecting point between small arcs in Gothic tracery. 2》… …
20cusp — /kʌsp / (say kusp) noun 1. a point; pointed end. 2. Anatomy, Zoology, Botany a point, projection or elevation, as on the crown of a tooth. 3. Medicine one of the triangular segments of the heart valve. 4. Mathematics a point at which the… …
