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noun
- (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
- (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
adj
- (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.
- having an oblique or slanted direction
- connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
noun
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
verb
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
noun
- (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
- (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
adj
- (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
noun
- (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
- (geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
- (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
- (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
- a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides
noun
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- The state of being friends
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- close or warm friendship
- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
- extreme stinginess
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
noun
- (geometry) The line perpendicularly connecting a figure’s vertex, especially a triangle’s apex, to the side opposite to the vertex.
- the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
- (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Height.
- Highest point or degree.
- The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
- (geometry) The length of such a line; the distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the side opposite to the vertex.
- Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
- A vertical distance.
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
noun
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- An advantage.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the boundary of a surface
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- a line determining the limits of an area
- a slight competitive advantage
verb
- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
- provide with a border or edge
noun
- (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
- One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
- A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
adj
noun
noun
- (geometry) A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.
- (geometry) A two-dimensional object comprising one vertex, one edge both of whose ends are that vertex, and one face filling in the hollow formed by that edge.
- (optics) A single-faceted reflector.
noun
adj
noun
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
verb
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (geometry) The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
- (mathematics) The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- The distance from the base to the top of something.
- (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- (figurative) The highest point or maximum degree.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- A high point.
- (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
- the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
noun
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
verb
noun
- (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- (grammar) Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- (education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
- (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- (geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- (algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- (algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a measure for arcs and angles
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- the highest power of a term or variable
- a unit of temperature on a specified scale
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
- an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
noun
- (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
- The inhabitants of a residential area.
- An approximate amount.
- Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
- The quality of physical proximity.
- (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
- The residential area near one's home.
- A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
- (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
- a surrounding or nearby region
- people living near one another
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
verb
- be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry
- (transitive, mathematics) To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc.
- (transitive, also mathematics) To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle.
- (botany, transitive) To stand beneath or close to, as a bract at the base of a flower.
- (transitive, mathematics) To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle.
noun
adj
- (Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
- Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
- (geometry) Tangent, touching at a single point.
- (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
- (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
noun
- The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
- A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.
- a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
noun
- (geometry) Initialism of angle-angle-side triangular congruency.
- Initialism of acute aortic syndrome.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of anabolic–androgenic steroid.
- (aviation) Initialism of Advanced Automation System, a system for radar control of transoceanic air corridors.
- an associate degree in applied science
name
- (help) Initialism of Assyrian Aid Society.
- (medicine) Initialism of Association for Academic Surgery.
- (biotechnology) Initialism of All-America Selections, an organization that promotes development of new garden seed varieties.
- (astronautics) Initialism of American Astronautical Society, an independent scientific and technical group in the United States.
- (sciences) Initialism of African Academy of Sciences, an Africa-wide scientific organization.
- (research) Initialism of American Antiquarian Society, an American society and national research library.
- (health) Initialism of Air Ambulance Service, a UK charity.
- (military) Initialism of Arnold Air Society, a professional honorary service organization for Air Force officer candidates.
- (astronomy) Initialism of American Astronomical Society, a United States society of professional astronomers.
- (politics) Initialism of Ansar al-Sunna, or Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group operating in Iraq.
- (anthropology) Initialism of Australian Anthropological Society.
- (human rights) Initialism of American Anti-Slavery Society.
- (medicine, psychology) Initialism of American Association of Suicidology, an American nonprofit suicide prevention organization.
- (research) Initialism of Association for Asian Studies.
- (Australia, sciences) Initialism of Australian Academy of Science, an independent, government-endorsed society with the aim of promoting science.
- (arachnology) Initialism of American Arachnological Society, a society of amateur and professional arachnologists.
- (research) Initialism of Assyrian Academic Society.
- (physics) Initialism of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.
adj
noun
- (geometry) An angle formed by two intersecting straight lines.
- (geometry) An angle formed by two intersecting planes, measured by the angle between two intersecting straight lines that are in respective planes and perpendicular to the intersection of the planes.
- an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane)
adj
- (geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
- Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
- Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
- (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
- Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
- Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
- (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
- Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
- Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
- having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- statistically unrelated
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noun
- (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
- (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
- A person or a thing that splits.
- (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
noun
- (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
- (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
adj
- (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.
- having an oblique or slanted direction
- connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
noun
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
verb
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
noun
- (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
- (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
adj
- (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
noun
- (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
- (geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
- (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
- (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
- a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides
noun
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- The state of being friends
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- close or warm friendship
- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
- extreme stinginess
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
noun
- (geometry) The line perpendicularly connecting a figure’s vertex, especially a triangle’s apex, to the side opposite to the vertex.
- the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
- (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Height.
- Highest point or degree.
- The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
- (geometry) The length of such a line; the distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the side opposite to the vertex.
- Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
- A vertical distance.
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
noun
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- An advantage.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the boundary of a surface
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- a line determining the limits of an area
- a slight competitive advantage
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- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
- provide with a border or edge
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- (mathematics) A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
- One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
- A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
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- (geometry) A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.
- (geometry) A two-dimensional object comprising one vertex, one edge both of whose ends are that vertex, and one face filling in the hollow formed by that edge.
- (optics) A single-faceted reflector.
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- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
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- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
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- (geometry) The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge.
- (mathematics) The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- The distance from the base to the top of something.
- (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- (figurative) The highest point or maximum degree.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- A high point.
- (Sussex) An area of land at the top of a cliff.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot
- the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
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- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
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- (graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- (physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- (grammar) Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- (education) A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university/college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)
- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
- (genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- (geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- (obsolete outside heraldry) A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- (surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- (algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- (geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- (logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- (algebra, field theory) The dimensionality of a field extension.
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a measure for arcs and angles
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- the highest power of a term or variable
- a unit of temperature on a specified scale
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
- an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
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- (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
- The inhabitants of a residential area.
- An approximate amount.
- Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
- The quality of physical proximity.
- (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
- The residential area near one's home.
- A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
- (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
- a surrounding or nearby region
- people living near one another
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
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- (Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
- Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
- (geometry) Tangent, touching at a single point.
- (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
- (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
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- The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
- A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.
- a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
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- (geometry) Initialism of angle-angle-side triangular congruency.
- Initialism of acute aortic syndrome.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of anabolic–androgenic steroid.
- (aviation) Initialism of Advanced Automation System, a system for radar control of transoceanic air corridors.
- an associate degree in applied science
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- (help) Initialism of Assyrian Aid Society.
- (medicine) Initialism of Association for Academic Surgery.
- (biotechnology) Initialism of All-America Selections, an organization that promotes development of new garden seed varieties.
- (astronautics) Initialism of American Astronautical Society, an independent scientific and technical group in the United States.
- (sciences) Initialism of African Academy of Sciences, an Africa-wide scientific organization.
- (research) Initialism of American Antiquarian Society, an American society and national research library.
- (health) Initialism of Air Ambulance Service, a UK charity.
- (military) Initialism of Arnold Air Society, a professional honorary service organization for Air Force officer candidates.
- (astronomy) Initialism of American Astronomical Society, a United States society of professional astronomers.
- (politics) Initialism of Ansar al-Sunna, or Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group operating in Iraq.
- (anthropology) Initialism of Australian Anthropological Society.
- (human rights) Initialism of American Anti-Slavery Society.
- (medicine, psychology) Initialism of American Association of Suicidology, an American nonprofit suicide prevention organization.
- (research) Initialism of Association for Asian Studies.
- (Australia, sciences) Initialism of Australian Academy of Science, an independent, government-endorsed society with the aim of promoting science.
- (arachnology) Initialism of American Arachnological Society, a society of amateur and professional arachnologists.
- (research) Initialism of Assyrian Academic Society.
- (physics) Initialism of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.
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- (geometry) An angle formed by two intersecting straight lines.
- (geometry) An angle formed by two intersecting planes, measured by the angle between two intersecting straight lines that are in respective planes and perpendicular to the intersection of the planes.
- an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane)
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- (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
- (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
- A person or a thing that splits.
- (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
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- be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry
- (transitive, mathematics) To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc.
- (transitive, also mathematics) To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle.
- (botany, transitive) To stand beneath or close to, as a bract at the base of a flower.
- (transitive, mathematics) To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle.
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- (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
- (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
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- (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.
- having an oblique or slanted direction
- connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
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- (geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
- Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
- Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
- (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
- Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
- Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
- (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
- Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
- Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
- having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- statistically unrelated