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Tilting

To slope or incline (something); to slant.

📖 Definitions of "Tilting"

verb
  1. 1

    To slope or incline (something); to slant.

    "Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents."

  2. 2

    (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.

  3. 3

    To be at an angle.

  4. 4

    To point or thrust a weapon at.

verb
  1. 1

    To cover with a tilt, or awning.

noun
  1. 1

    The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.

  2. 2

    The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.

  3. 3

    A charging with a lance, as in jousting.

adjective
  1. 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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