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tapered

UK/ˈteɪ.pə(ɹ)d/US/ˈteɪ.pɚd/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,761 of 15,258mostly written

Tapered means growing narrower towards one end. Tapered trousers, a tapered candle, a tapered leg.

In clothing, tapered trousers narrow towards the ankle, and tapered is the standard cut description alongside straight and flared. In engineering a tapered fit locks two parts together by friction. Tapering as a verb means reducing gradually — taper off the dose, the rain tapered off — and central banks use tapering for gradually reducing stimulus. Note taper, the noun, which is a thin candle, and is where the shape name came from.

Definitions of tapered

  1. 1adjectivetaperedGrowing narrower towards one end.C1

    “The tapered legs make the whole table look lighter.”

tapered is a narrowing shape.

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tapered in the wild

  • Most jet aircraft use a tapered swept wing design.

    Chord (aeronautics)

  • The chip breaker is not tapered like the main blade; instead, it has bent "ears" that bear down on the plane blade.

    Japanese plane

  • The tapered drift pin is used to align the two bolt holes in two separate components that are designed to mate.

    Drift pin

  • In this situation the tapered drift pin is on the handle end of a spud wrench used for assembling trusses, structural steel beams, and steel pipe flanges.

    Drift pin

  • Some tuning pegs and pins are tapered, some threaded.

    Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.