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Uncommontilting
The correct spelling is tilting.
How to pronounce tilting
verb
Say it like: Til-tin-g
The correct spelling is tilting. To slope or incline (something); to slant. For example: "Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents."
Usage Examples
“Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.”
“to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- 2.(jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- 3.To be at an angle.
- 4.To point or thrust a weapon at.
- 5.To point or thrust (a weapon).
noun
- 1.The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
- 2.The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
- 3.A charging with a lance, as in jousting.
adjective
- 1.Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.
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