cusp 的定义
- 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.
cusp 近义词
edge
更多cusp例句
- 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.