cusp
尖顶,尖峰期,顶点,尖峰时刻
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Definitions
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- : a point or pointed end.
- : Anatomy, Zoology, Botany. a point, projection, or elevation, as on the crown of a tooth.
- : Also called spinode. Geometry. a point where two branches of a curve meet, end, and are tangent.
- : Architecture. a decorative device, used especially in Gothic architecture to vary the outlines of intradoses or to form architectural foils, consisting of a pair of curves tangent to the real or imaginary line defining the area decorated and meeting at a point within the area.
- : Astronomy. a point of a crescent, especially of the moon.
- : Astrology. the zodiacal degree that marks the beginning of a house or a sign.Informal.a person born on the first day of a sign.
- : a point that marks the beginning of a change: on the cusp of a new era.
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The People’s Bank of China is on the cusp of launching a digital yuan, which many believe will help China weaken the influence of the greenback in global trade.
Here’s how confident Jeff Sprecher is that he’s on the cusp of transforming the lengthy, paper-heavy slog of getting a home loan into a fully digitized snap.
The 2020 college football season is looking less and less likely, with Power Five conferences reportedly on the cusp of calling off or at least postponing fall sports.
Curie was also on the cusp of announcing that it had struck some deals with fitness studios to carry its deodorant.
The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard “is one of the few land masses where you can see cusp aurorae,” says Elizabeth MacDonald.
The novel is a near perfect portrayal of the emotions of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.
France, and indeed Europe, was on the cusp of a new kind of living where governments needed to be efficient.
As the Daily Beast reported earlier this week, Pippa Middleton is on the cusp of signing a deal to be a special reporter for NBC.
These new cases, both real and merely suspected, are coming right as we approach the cusp of influenza season.
“I always read him as an older kind of a guy on the cusp of finishing school and finding a job,” he said.
The specimens from Honduras have a basal cusp on the hinder edge of the lower canine.
The pierced cusp gives a peculiar lightness and brilliancy to the window, but is not so sublime.
In every other case the form of the aperture is determined, either by a flat and solid cusp as in 6, or by a pierced cusp as in 4.
II.; and its derivation from the solid cusp will be understood, at once, from the woodcut Fig.
The ornaments of the cusp might thus be worked without any troublesome reference to the rest of the arch.