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English

Etymology

From Middle English spyne, from Old French espine (modern French épine) or its source, Latin sp?na.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /spa?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

spine (plural spines)

1. The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to the tail of an animal; backbone, vertebral column.
2. Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate.
   1. The narrow, bound edge of a book.
3. A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
4. The heartwood of trees.
5. (figuratively) Courage or assertiveness.
6. The stiffness of an arrow.
7. (neuroscience) Ellipsis of dendritic spine

Synonyms

• (sharp protuberance from a living thing): needle; quill (on animals, flexible); spike (rigid); virgula (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• spine at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Espin, Pines, Snipe, epsin, penis, pines, snipe

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sp?na.

Noun

spine f (plural spinis)

1. thorn
2. spine, prickle

Related terms

• spin

Italian

Noun

spine f

1. plural of spina

Anagrams

• pensi, pinse

Latin

Noun

sp?ne

1. vocative singular of sp?nus

Middle English

Noun

spine

1. Alternative form of spyne

English

Etymology

Mid-1700s East Anglian dialect. Origin uncertain but perhaps from Old Danish splind or North Frisian splinj and ultimately related to the root of splinter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spla?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

spline (plural splines)

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 material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
4. (mathematics, computing) Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
5. (woodworking) A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
6. (mechanics) Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.

Coordinate terms

• (woodworking): biscuit, dowel, glue strip, finger joint

Derived terms

• B-spline
• cubic spline
• splined

Translations

Verb

spline (third-person singular simple present splines, present participle splining, simple past and past participle splined)

1. (mathematics, computing) To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
2. (engineering) To fit with a spline.
3. (engineering) To fasten to or together with a spline.

See also

• French curve

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Esplin, L-spine, Pilsen, pinsel, spinel