acuminating
/əˈkjuːmɪneɪtɪŋ/adjective
Tapering or narrowing to a point; (Mineralogy, of three or more planes) meeting so as to form a point by their intersection (now rare ).
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Richard Kirwan (1733–1812), chemist and mineralogist. From acuminate + -ing.
- molluscum sebaceum
- molluscum virus
- mollusk
- Mollweide projection
- molly
- molly-blob
- Molly bolt
- Molly Bright
- mollycoddle
- mollycoddler
- molly coddler
- Molly dancer
- molly dook
- molly-dooked
- mollydooker
- mollyhack
- mollyhawk
- molly-house
- mollyish
- Molly Maguire
- mollymawk
- Molniya orbit
- molo
- pulsion diverticulum
- pulsive