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crescent-shaped

adj

Definitions

  1. Having the shape of a crescent, with inner and outer curves of different radii.

    • [...] it settles the vexed question as to whether Stroudley or R. J. Billinton first introduced crescent-shaped balanceweights into the driving and coupled wheels of L.B. & S.C. locomotives.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at crescent-shaped. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at crescent-shaped. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at crescent-shaped

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA