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Tilting

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 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. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    The motion of something that tilts; a tilt. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting. countable, uncountable

    "[…] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tilt form-of, gerund, participle, present

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