Tilting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Tilting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of tilt.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of tilt.
More Meanings
- The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
- The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
- A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.
- (mathematics) 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.
Example Sentences
[…] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.
Word Forms
- tiltings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slant, inclination, lean, leaning, sway, tip.
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