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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