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Webster 1913 Edition
Vanishing
Van′ish-ing
,Vanishing fraction
(Math.)
, a fraction which reduces to the form 0⁄0 for a particular value of the variable which enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable.
Math. Dict.
– Vanishing line
(Persp.)
, the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and the picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point.
– Vanishing point
(Persp.)
, the point to which all parallel lines in the same plane tend in the representation.
Gwilt.
– Vanishing stress
(Phon.)
, stress of voice upon the closing portion of a syllable.
Rush.
Webster 1828 Edition
Vanishing
VAN'ISHING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
vanishing
vanishing
English
Adjective
vanishing (not comparable)
- That vanishes.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
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Derived terms
Verb
vanishing
- present participle of vanish