spline

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A long, thin piece of metal or wood.
2. isim A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
3. isim 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.
4. isim Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.

   “These conditions provide a framework which encompasses some notable approximation kernels including splines, so-called cardinal functions, and many radial basis functions such as the Gaussians and general multiquadrics.”

5. isim 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.
6. isim 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.

   “Near-synonym: feather”

7. fiil To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
8. fiil To fit with a spline.

   “Machining a straight spline with a lathe. Sometimes the task of splining a shaft comes up during a repair. Instead of sending out the job, use this setup to mill the splines on a lathe.”

9. fiil To fasten to or together with a spline.

   “Engineers did not think two crankshafts could be synchronized. Wood, by splining the shafts in each gear box, proved it could be done.”