How to pronounce “spline”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A long, thin piece of metal or wood. [from the mid 18th c]
• (woodworking) A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
• A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
• (mathematics, computing) Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
• (mechanics) A ridge or tooth on a drive shaft that meshes with a corresponding groove in a mating piece and transfers torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between the pieces; either the ridge or the groove, as part of a set of both (splines); the whole set of ridges and grooves.
• A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.
• [Verb]
• (mathematics, computing) To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
• (engineering) To fit with a spline.
• (engineering) To fasten to or together with a spline.

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