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Meaning of tilting

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

tilting

verb

Definitions

  1. To slope or incline (something); to slant.

    Example: Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

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

  3. To be at an angle.

  4. To point or thrust a weapon at.

verb

Definitions

  1. To cover with a tilt, or awning.

noun

Definitions

  1. The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.

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

  3. A charging with a lance, as in jousting.

adjective

Definitions

  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.