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cusp

cusp

(kŭsp)

1. A point or pointed end.

2. Anatomy

a. A pointed or rounded projection on the chewing surface of a tooth.

b. A triangular fold or flap of a heart valve.

3. Mathematics A point at which a curve crosses itself and at which the two tangents to the curve coincide.

4. Architecture The point of intersection of two ornamental arcs or curves, such as the inner points of a trefoil.

5. Astronomy Either point of a crescent moon.

6. The boundary between two astrological signs or Zodiacal constellations.

Idiom:

on the cusp

1. On the threshold or verge of a development or action: an actor on the cusp of becoming a star.

2. At the dividing line or border of two conditions or categories: an artist on the cusp between Victorianism and modernism.

[Latin cuspis, point.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

cusp

(kʌsp)

1. (Dentistry) any of the small elevations on the grinding or chewing surface of a tooth

2. (Anatomy) any of the triangular flaps of a heart valve

3. a point or pointed end

4. (Mathematics) geometry Also called: spinode a point at which two arcs of a curve intersect and at which the two tangents are coincident

5. (Architecture) architect a carving at the meeting place of two arcs

6. (Astronomy) astronomy either of the points of a crescent moon or of a satellite or inferior planet in a similar phase

7. (Astrology) astrology any division between houses or signs of the zodiac

[C16: from Latin cuspis point, pointed end]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cusp

(kʌsp)

n.

1. a point or pointed end.

2. an anatomical point or prominence, as on the crown of a tooth or on a valve of the heart.

3. a point where two branches of a curve meet, end, and are tangent.

4. an architectural figure consisting of a pair of curves tangent to the line defining the area, decorated and meeting at a point within the area.

5. a point of a crescent, esp. of the moon.

a. the degree of the zodiac that marks the beginning of an astrological house or sign.

b. the beginning, esp. the first day, of a new sign.

c. a person born on the first day of a sign.

7. a point that marks the beginning of a change: on the cusp of a new era.

[1575–85; < Latin cuspis a point]

cusp′al, adj.

cusp

Either of the two points of a crescent moon.

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Noun	1.	cusp - point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch) point - sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
	2.	cusp - a thin triangular flap of a heart valve leaflet flap - a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body cardiac valve, heart valve - a valve to control one-way flow of blood
	3.	cusp - small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense tip, peak, point - a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"

cusp

noun

A sharp or tapered end:

acicula, acumination, apex, mucro, mucronation, point, tip.

Translations

piek spits

пик

cusp

[kʌsp] N (Bot, Astron) → cúspide f; [of tooth] → corona f; [of moon] → cuerno m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cusp

[ˈkʌsp] n
to be on the cusp of sth (= at the beginning of) → être à l'orée de qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cusp

n (of tooth) → Höcker m; (of moon) → Spitze f → (der Mondsichel); (Astrol) → Eintritt m → in ein neues Zeichen; on the cusp of (fig) → an der Schwelle zu

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cusp

[kʌsp] n → cuspide f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cusp

n. cúspide, punta.

References in periodicals archive ?

Variation in number of cusps in human dentition can be a diagnostic tool in clinical dental research and anthropology for characterizing and classifying various ethnic groups.1 Cusps which basically build the occusal surface of dentition also vary in number within different species of primates' also.2 Various studies have shown different results regarding the presence of cusp numbers in mandibular molars to show whether they show the ethnicity or not.

COMPARISON OF NUMBER OF CUSPS IN PERMANENT MANDIBULAR FIRST MOLARS IN DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

To state the result, let [DELTA][subset] [X.sub.[GAMMA]] be the (reduced) cusp divisor.

Modular forms of weight 3m and elliptic modular surfaces

"There's a great foundation at this football club and I'm really excited and I feel as though we're on the cusp of something that could be quite special when I look at the team I played on Tuesday night," he said.

Hill believes 'special' times are ahead for his Dale players; FOOTBALL

The CUSP will host Associates who will be expected to write discussion papers and opinion pieces on critical urban issues as well as engage in dialogue with relevant policy makers and stakeholders at the local, provincial and national levels.

IBA launches a Center for Urban Studies and Policy

Nottingham [UK], Aug 22 ( ANI ): Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah's heroics has put India on the cusp of victory on the fourth day of the third Test at Trent Bridge on Sunday, with the visitors one England dismissal away from recording one their most famous test wins.

Nottingham Test: India 1 wicket away from victory

The crown is composed of orthodentine apart from the lower part of the central cusp which consists of trabecular dentine.

Chondrichthyans from the Devonian--Early Carboniferous of Belarus

The length of the resin cement specimen was 8.0 mm, and the width of resin cement specimen was 4.7 mm (30[degrees] cusp inclination groups), 4.3 mm (20[degrees] cusp inclination groups), or 8.0 mm (0[degrees] cusp inclination groups).

Polymerization Efficiency of a Dual-Cured Resin Cement through Zirconia with Three Different Cusp Inclinations

Since Schroter saw the blunted cusp from one night to the next (though not at every evening elongation), he concluded that Mercury had an Earthlike rotation of 24 hours.

The Poles of Mercury: Observers once dreamed of 11-mile-high mountains and glittering ice caps

CUSP will occupy the top two floors of the newly renovated, 530,000 s/f building in Downtown Brooklyn.

NYC Science program becomes first resident of 370 Jay Street campus

"Katarina Johnson-Thompson should be winning a medal, Andrew Pozzi, Holly Bradshaw - there are so many on the cusp. As soon as we start turning those fourth and fifth places into medals British Athletics is going to be thriving."

GB 'on brink of sprint breakthrough' ATHLETICS

Group-A comprised of nineteen (37%) patients who neither had aortic structural nor functional abnormality while GroupB had six (11.7%) patients, having aortic valve cusp prolapse without aortic regurgitation.

Doubly committed Subarterial Ventricular Septal defect repair: An experience of 51 cases

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