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cusp

cusp
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kuhsp]
    • /kʌsp/
    • /kʌsp/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kuhsp]
    • /kʌsp/

Definitions of cusp word

  • noun cusp any of the small elevations on the grinding or chewing surface of a tooth 3
  • noun cusp any of the triangular flaps of a heart valve 3
  • noun cusp a point or pointed end 3
  • noun cusp a point at which two arcs of a curve intersect and at which the two tangents are coincident 3
  • noun cusp a carving at the meeting place of two arcs 3
  • noun cusp either of the points of a crescent moon or of a satellite or inferior planet in a similar phase 3

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Origin of cusp

First appearance:

before 1575
One of the 34% oldest English words
First recorded in 1575-85, cusp is from the Latin word cuspis a point

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Cusp

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

cusp popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

cusp usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for cusp

noun cusp

  • flap — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
  • point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
  • apex — An Apex or an Apex ticket is a ticket for a journey by air or rail which costs less than the standard ticket, but which you have to book a specified period in advance.
  • tip — Eugene (Gladstone) 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.
  • tooth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.

Antonyms for cusp

noun cusp

  • nadir — Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith.
  • bottom — The bottom of something is the lowest or deepest part of it.

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