spline
IPA: spɫaɪn
noun
- Long thin piece of metal or wood.
- (woodworking) A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
- A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
- (mathematics, computing) Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
- A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.
- (mechanics) Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.
verb
- (mathematics, computing) To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
- (engineering) To fit with a spline.
- (engineering) To fasten to or together with a spline.
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Examples of "spline" in Sentences
- An example of a FCurve is a spline.
- Due to the spline locality property,
- Involute teeth are used for the splines.
- A dummy spline locates and guides the pulley.
- A spline is arranged on that section of the valve stem.
- In this case, a spline is a piecewise polynomial function.
- Of course this spline drive is different from spline drive sockets.
- The authors did extensive investigation into the spline interpolation.
- This forces the boundaries of the spline curve to be inflection points.
- The literature of splines is replete with names for special types of splines.
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