Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cusp
Cusp
cusp
n. 1 an apex or peak. 2 the horn of a crescent moon etc. 3 Astrol. the initial point of a house. 4 Archit. a projecting point between small arcs in Gothic tracery. 5 Geom. the point at which two arcs meet from the same direction terminating with a common tangent. 6 Bot. a pointed end, esp. of a leaf. 7 a cone-shaped prominence on the surface of a tooth esp. a molar or premolar. 8 a pocket or fold in a valve of the heart. Derivatives cuspate adj. cusped adj. cuspidal adj. Etymology: L cuspis, -idis point, apex
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noun Etymology: Latin ~is point Date: 1585 point, apex: as, a point of transition (as from one historical period to the next) ; turning point, either horn of a crescent moon, a fixed point on a mathematical curve at which a point tracing the curve would exactly reverse its direction of motion, an ornamental pointed projection formed by or arising from the intersection of two arcs or foils, e. a point on the grinding surface of a tooth, a fold or flap of a cardiac valve, ~ate adjective ~ed adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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