Cusp

Definition: Cusp

Cusp

Noun

1. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).

2. A thin triangular flap of a heart valve.

3. Small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth.

Date "cusp" was first used: 1585. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	Pattern in which two parts of a curve meet in a common point. Source: European Union. (references)
Mathematics	In mathematics, the pattern in which two parts of a curve meet in a common point. Used to describe the performance of directional antennas. Source: European Union. (references)
Religion & Philosophy	The dividing lines between one house and another. Owing to the disagreement about house division, one man's -- can be another man's blank. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	Of a figure-of-eight-shaped fuselage, the indentation on each side at floor level. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
CUSP	English	Central Unit for Scientific Photography	Fine Arts
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Cusp

Synonym: leaflet (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Angularity	Angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle, cusp, bend; fold; notch; fork, bifurcation.
Sharpness	Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cusp

English words defined with "cusp": Cusping ♦ Double point ♦ Regression point ♦ Singular point, Singular point in a curve ♦ unicuspid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cusp": Aortic Valve Prolapse ♦ Chordae Tendineae, cuspy ♦ occlusal harmony. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cusp" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Scottish (a kibe).

Domain	Title
Books	Children of the Cusp: Children of the Cusp (reference) Cluster dayside polar cusp : planning and coordination of measurements from cluster, ground stations, balloons, and rockets in the dayside polar-cusp region : proceedings of an international workshop, Longyearbyen, Norway, 16-19 September 1991 (reference) Cusp (reference) Cusp : Poems (reference) Dimension Formulae for the Vector Spaces of Siegel Cusp Forms of Degree Three (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 373) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Cusp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Cusp" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.41%	62	42,755
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.59%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	63	N/A

Expression using "cusp": beach cusp. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cusp": cusp-cleft, cusp-mantle.
	Ending with "cusp": pulsating-cusp.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "cusp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		cep (bight, horn, nook, projection, prominence, prominency, snick, tip), majë (aiguille, alp, apex, height, nab, naze, Neb, needle, nib, peak, Pike, pinnacle, point, projection, Spike, spire, summit, tine, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex, woof). (various references)

Arabic		‏مصطلح لغة, ‏نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, facet, jut, knob, ledge, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick, stick up), ‏طرف مستدق (tip), ‏أحد قرني الهلال. (various references)

Bulgarian		рогче (cornicle), рог (horn), точка на пресичане, връх (acme, apex, cap, consummation, cope-stone, extremity, full, gad, head, height, heyday, loop, meridian, peak, perfection, pink, pinnacle, point, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex), зъбер (crag, crenel, machicolation), заострен елемент на орнамент. (various references)

Czech		vrchol (acme, apex, brow, height, heyday, peak, pink, pinnacle, summit, top, vertex, zenith), srpek mìsíce (Crescent). (various references)

Danish		cuspis (canine cusp, cusp of crown of tooth, cusp of tooth), spids (peak, point, pointed, spiked, summit, tip), fligklap, dobbeltcylinderfuselage. (various references)

Dutch		cuspis, uitstekende ribbel, top (agreed, okay, peak, point, summit, surface, tip, top), slip van een hartklep, slip (briefs), maximum (maximum). (various references)

Finnish		leikkauspiste (intersection), kahden käyrän leikkauspiste, käännepiste (turning point). (various references)

French		cuspide. (various references)

German		Spitze (apex, barb, dig, dig (at), end, fineness, front, great, head, hit, holder, horn, in-group, jag, keen, lace, lead, nib, peak, pike, pinnacle, point, pointed toe, shaft, Spike, spire, summit, surplus, tip, toe, too much, top, Van, vanguard, vertex, wild), Scheitelpunkt (apex, crest, zenith). (various references)

Greek		κορυφή (acknowledger, apex, atop, climax, crest, crown, mountaintop, needle, peak, ridge, summit, tiptop, top, vertex), σημείο τομής δύο καμπυλών, σημείο τομής, γλωχίνα, λοβωτός, λοβωτής μορφής, οξύ άκρο (prickle). (various references)

Hebrew		ח�"ו�" (blade, fulcrum, prick, quip). (various references)

Hungarian		holdcsúcs, belsõ csúcs. (various references)

Indonesian		titik (dot, period), puncak (apex, capstone, crest, culmination, high, mount, peak, pitch, top, zenith). (various references)

Italian		cuspide (apex, point). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		先端 (advanced, fine point, leading edge, pointed end, spearhead, tip, vanguard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"た�" (advanced, fine point, leading edge, opening of hostilities, pointed end, sorting of coal, spearhead, the elixir, tip, vanguard), せ�"とう (bath-house, battle, combat, fight, first, head, lead, pinnacle, point, pointed end, public bath, punch, scissors, ship's lamp, spire, starting pitcher, steeple, trampling down, vanguard). (various references)

Manx		eairk (antler, horn, peak), cuspey (model), birran (spike file, style). (various references)

Pig Latin		uspcay

Portuguese		ponta (beak, crampon, jot, neb, nib, peak, point, prickle, sparable, stub, summit, tab, tine, tip), cúspide (peak, spire, vertex). (various references)

Romanian		vârf (acme, apex, cap, climax, crest, edge, end, head, height, knoll, nib, nozzle, peak, pinnacle, point, style, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topping). (various references)

Russian		створка (casement, flap, leaf, valve), рог луны, точка перегиба кривой, кончик зуба, острый выступ (jag, jagg). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrh (acme, apex, crest, head, height, peak, pinnacle, point, summit, tip, top), šiljak (jag, nib, peak, spike, tip). (various references)

Spanish		cúspide (apex, cuspid, peak, summit). (various references)

Swedish		udd (jag, nib, point, prong, scallop, sting, tooth), horn (antler, hooter, horn, klaxon). (various references)

Turkish		zirve (acme, apex, apogee, cap, climax, crown, culmination, head, height, high, high tide, meridian, payoff, peak, Pike, pink, pinnacle, summit, top, vertex, zenith), uç (apex, bit, end, extremity, peak, point, pole, tab, tail, terminal, the extreme, tip, toe, top), sivri uç (jag, point, prickle, prong, spica, Spike), doruk (acme, apex, apical, apogee, climax, crest, culmination, height, heyday, high tide, meridian, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, top, vertex, zenith). (various references)

Ukrainian		ріг місяця, гострий виступ (jag), мис (foreland, headland, hoe, promontory), пік (nab, peak, tor). (various references)

Vietnamese		chỏm (cap, crest, head, ridge, summit), đỉnh (head, summit, tip, tiptop, top, topgallant, top-notch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cuspidem, cuspis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cusp": cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspid, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidation, cuspidations, cuspides, cuspidor, cuspidors, cuspids, cuspis, cusps. (additional references)
	Words containing "cusp": bicuspid, bicuspids, tricuspid, tricuspids. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cusp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Casp, ccsu, Ccus, ceps, ciespl, consp, Copsu, Cosep, Cosipa, cosp, crsp, csb, csp, csso, csu, culp, Cupp, cupsy, cupw, cus, cusa, cush, cusip, Cusk, cuso, cuspal, Cussi, cusx, cuz, gusp, jusp, Ucip, Ucsf, Ucst, usp. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cups, scup.
	Words within the letters "c-p-s-u"
	-1 letter: cup, pus, sup, ups.
	-2 letters: up, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-p-s-u"
	+1 letter: coups, cusps, puces, pucks, scaup, sculp, scups.
	+2 letters: campus, carpus, catsup, chumps, clumps, corpus, coupes, coypus, croups, crumps, cupels, cupids, cuppas, cusped, cuspid, cuspis, cutups, cyprus, piculs, plucks, putsch, scaups, sculps, sculpt, spruce, sprucy, uncaps, upcast.
	+3 letters: apercus, auspice, backups, capfuls, capsule, catsups, closeup, clypeus, cockups, copious, copouts, copulas, couples, coupons, coypous, croupes, cupfuls, cupolas, cuppers, cuprous, cuprums, cupsful, cupules, cuspate, cuspids, eggcups, eyecups, fuckups, hiccups, hubcaps, insculp, kickups, lockups, mockups, mudcaps, octopus, oilcups, percuss, piceous, pickups, pouches, pounces, precuts, prussic, publics, puckers, puckish, pumices, punches, recoups, scaleup, scapula, scauper, schlump, scopula, screwup, scruple, sculped, sculpin, sculpts, scupper, scyphus, soupcon, specula, spicula, spicule, spruced, sprucer, spruces, stackup, stickup, suspect, teacups, unclasp, unclips, unpacks, unpicks, upcasts, upcoast, upcoils, upcurls, upscale, upticks.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
cusp	42	aries cusp pisces	5
astrology cusp	21	aries cusp taurus	5
cusp horoscope	20	cusp sagittarius scorpio	5
cancer cusp gemini	15	aquarius capricorn cusp	5
cusp sign	12	capricorn cusp sagitarius	4
libra scorpio cusp	11	5th cusp sign	3
cancer cusp leo	10	compatibility cusp	3
leo virgo cusp	10	astrology cusp sign	2
cusp libra virgo	9	cusp gemini	2
born cusp	9	cusp taurus	2
astrological cusp	8	cusp evans polar reidel	2
cusp gemini taurus	6	cusp sign zodiac	2
aquarius pisces cusp	6	capricorn cusp sagittarius	2
cusp zodiac	6	cusp virgo	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cusp

Definition: Cusp

Cusp

Noun

Specialty Definition: Cusp

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cusp

CUSP

Synonym: Cusp

Synonyms within Context: Cusp

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Crosswords: Cusp

Commercial Usage: Cusp

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Usage Frequency: Cusp

Expression: Cusp

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cusp

Modern Translation: Cusp

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