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A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines
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spline
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
long, thin piece of wood or metal, 1756, from East Anglian dialect, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from older Danish splind or North Frisian splinj . Especially one fitted into a groove on a wheel and a shaft to keep them revolving together (1864).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spline \Spline\, n. A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece. A long, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Spline may refer to: Spline (mechanical) , a mating feature for rotating elements Spline (mathematics) , a mathematical function used for interpolation or smoothing Smoothing spline , a method of smoothing using a spline function Multivariate adaptive regression ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Long thin piece of metal or wood. (from the mid 18th c) 2 A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together. 3 A flexible strip of metal or other ...
Usage examples of spline.
Parz that his rendezvous with the Spline fleet was less than five minutes away.
And above the blue arc he saw another Spline ship, reduced by perspective to the size of his fist.
Qax had found out how weak and naive humanity really was, the Spline warships had moved in.
For instance, it had been learned that the Spline vessels employed by the Qax were derived from immense, sea-going creatures with articulated limbs, which had once scoured the depths of some world-girdling ocean.
Then a translator box built somewhere into the fabric of the flitter hissed into life, and Parz knew that the Spline had established a tight laser link.
And he was sure that there were only three or four Qax individuals assigned to the supervision of Earth, orbiting in the warm bellies of their Spline freighters.
It had reached hyperspace within seconds, before the orbiting Spline fleet could react.
Qax boiling with unexpressed rage within its womblike Spline container.
Parz peered into an eyeball that, swiveling, gazed out at him from folds of hardened epidermis, and Parz felt a strange sense of kinship with the Spline, this fellow client creature of the Qax.
Governor inside his Spline flagship, back in Earth orbit a full year ago, the AS treatments had done wonders for some of his more obvious ailments, and it was a blessed relief to climb out of a chair without the accompaniment of stabbing agonies in his back.
The flesh of the Spline peeled back from the wound, bubbling into immense blisters, and Parz was afforded a brief glimpse of space.
The Spline must already be inside the squeezed-vacuum exoticity zone that surrounded the mouth of the wormhole itself, and soon the portal was so close that Jasoft had to press his faceplate against the warm Spline lens to make out its vertices.
The humans of fifteen centuries ago will have no means of defense against the weaponry of the Spline craft.
It felt as if the Spline had jerked through a few hundred yards, as if hauling itself away from some source of pain.
At one point the Spline came within a few dozen yards of brushing the frame itself.