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keilförmig — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • tapered adjective Becoming gradually narrower towards one end.

Senses

keilförmig is used for these senses in English:

  • cuneiform Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
  • cuneiform Written in the cuneiform writing system.
  • cuneiform An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
  • tapered Narrowing gradually towards a point.
  • wedgelike Shaped like a wedge.

tapered — full definition

  1. adjective Becoming gradually narrower towards one end.
  2. verb Past tense of taper: to reduce something gradually rather than stopping it at once.

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