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Cuneus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
  2. 2
    any shape that is triangular in cross section wordnet
  3. 3
    A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
  4. 4
    One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coign and coin.

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