Tapering
['tepərɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of gradually lowering the size or amount; 'the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taper
(a.) Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Conical, TAPER.
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Examples
- The tube is 52 feet long, 4 feet diameter in the middle, tapering to a little over 3 feet at the ends. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Before this latter operation, the finished tapering, smoothing, varnishing and polishing is done by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the narrow end of the cue, the tapering ceases about three-quarters of an inch from the end and flanges out according to the kind of tip the player prefers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The body of the one-man air craft is about sixteen feet long, two feet wide and three inches thick, tapering to a point at each end. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This, too, receives a rough rotundity and tapering on a lathe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You will be found out by your tapering waist and large bosom. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A more sensational experiment is to substitute a tapering tin cup for the tube, then fill it with liquid air and immerse it in water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In a few minutes the tapering tin cup has frozen on its outer walls a tumbler of ice. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I have said that the West is still moved by the tapering impulse of the pioneer, and I have ventured to predict that this would soon dwindle into an agricultural toryism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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