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noun

Cusp n.

(Arch.) A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

(Astrol.) The beginning or first entrance of any house in the calculations of nativities, etc.

(Astron) The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

(Math.) A multiple point of a curve at which two or more branches of the curve have a common tangent.

(Anat.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth.

(Bot.) A sharp and rigid point.

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Etymology of 'Cusp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cusp" Quotes from Famous Books

... a bough which has forked. If the lower fork has died off, for want of light, we obtain something like the simply cusped arch. If it be still living—but short and stunted in comparison with the higher fork—we obtain, it seems to me, something like the foliated cusp; both likenesses being near enough to those of common objects to make it possible that those objects may have suggested them. And thus, more and more boldly, the mediaeval architect learnt to copy boughs, stems, and, at last, the whole effect, ...

— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley

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