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spline
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spline

In computer graphics, a smooth curve that runs through a series of given points. The term is often used to refer to any curve, because long before computers, a spline was a flat, pliable strip of wood or metal that was bent into a desired shape for drawing curves on paper. See Bezier and B-spline.

spline [splīn]
(design engineering)
One of a number of equally spaced keys cut integral with a shaft, or similarly, keyways in a hubbed part; the mated pair permits the transmission of rotation or translatory motion along the axis of the shaft.
(engineering)
A strip of wood, metal, or plastic.
(graphic arts)
A flexible strip used in drawing curves.
(mathematics)
A function used to approximate a specified function on an interval, consisting of pieces which are defined uniquely on a set of subintervals, usually as polynomials or some other simple form, and which match up with each other and the prescribed function at the end points of the subintervals with a sufficiently high degree of accuracy.


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Its new proCore line, introduced at NPE 2006, has collapsible splines that move inward during the ejection cycle to release the part.
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The spline approach indicates that the national average exposure-response curve obtained using natural cubic splines is near horizontal, indicating the lack of evidence for an association, only at the very low concentrations (from 0 to ~10 ppb) and then becomes approximately linear at higher concentrations (Figure 3).
The exposure-response curve for ozone and risk of mortality and the ... by Dominici, Francesca / Environmental Health Perspectives
de Boor, A practical guide to splines, Springer-Verlag, New York (1978).
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