SPLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spline mean? 

• SPLINE (noun)
  The noun SPLINE has 2 senses:

1. a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines

2. a thin strip (wood or metal)

  Familiarity information: SPLINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("spline" is a kind of...):

strip (thin piece of wood or metal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A thin strip (wood or metal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

slat; spline

Hypernyms ("spline" is a kind of...):

strip (thin piece of wood or metal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spline"):

lath (a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework)

fin; louver; louvre (one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain)

splat (a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair)

lag; stave (one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket)

Holonyms ("spline" is a part of...):

Venetian blind (a window blind made of horizontal strips that overlap when closed)