different between shapedness vs falciformity

shapedness

English

Etymology

First attested in 1812: shaped +? -ness.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sh?p(t)?n?s, IPA(key): /??e?pt?n?s/

Noun

shapedness (uncountable)

  1. (in parasynthetic derivatives) The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
    • 1812, July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A., A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”, page 60, “The Elephant”
      The Elephant…[i]s reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. […] Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.

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falciformity

English

Etymology

falciform +? -ity

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: f?ls?fôr?m?t?, IPA(key): /fæls??f??m?t?/

Noun

falciformity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being falciform; sickle-shapedness.
    • 2002: Metal 2002: 11th International Metallurgical & Material Conference, 14th–16th of May in 2002, ?ervený zámek, Hradec nad Moravicí, ?eská republika – Czech Republic, paper 120: Marta Migalska and Stanis?aw Borkowski, “Analysis of Factors Influencing the Quality of Sheet Metals”, page 2 of 4
      The surface of sheet metals should not have any bracks, cracks, non-metallic inclusions. As far as bias and falciformity are concerned, they should not exceed the value of permissible aberrations of width and length of the sheet.

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