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Definition of Cusped
1. Adjective. Having cusps or points.
Similar to: Angular, Angulate
Derivative terms: Cusp, Cuspid
Definition of Cusped
1. Adjective. Having a cusp; pointed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cusped
1. cusp [adj] - See also: cusp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cusped
Literary usage of Cusped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Cubic and Quartic Curves by Alfred Barnard Basset (1901)
"The three-cusped hypocycloid is the curve traced out by a point on the circumference
of a ... The orthoptic locus of a three-cusped hypocycloid is a circle. ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1873)
"The reader will observe that I call the arch mid-cusped, not when the cusp ...
I have preferred to call the arch mid-cusped with respect to its side piece ..."
3. A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture: In Italy, Greece, and the Levant edited by William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1895)
"The wing has in the first story two double arched windows with cusped ogee heads,
joined by a long balcony ; in the second and third stories is a panelled ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"A Geometrical Theorem in connection n-iih the Threc-cusped Hypocycloid. By RF DAVIS.
11. On the Discriminating Candil ion of Maxima and Minima in the ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"Unfortunately the early windows were destroyed, with the exception of a narrow
light with cusped ogee head on the east of the north transept ; and the end ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus Founded on the Method of by John Minot Rice, William Woolsey Johnson (1888)
"... cusped Hypocycloid. FIG. 32.. In the case of the hypocycloid when b = %a, the
circumference of the rolling circle is one-fourth the circumference of the ..."
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